Capabilities and dust

[gerisullivan]

Some boxes, you open, unpack, and put stuff down or away. Hey, man; neat stuff. Nice to see it again. Good to have more than the dishes in the Interim Kitchen Kit at my disposal. Don't have to do the dishes so often; can instead fill the dishwasher and let it do its superior cleaning job.

Other boxes expand capabilities. Open the fax box, set it up, and I can immediately send faxes without having to first scan the document and do it electronically. Which is why that particular box got opened -- I needed to fax water test results to the well drillers so they can advise and quote on a filtration or water treatment solution to the iron and whatever else they want to advise treating. Clean the last of the Toad Hall dust off the printer stand, remove the printer from its box, plug everything in -- look, I can print again!

Speaking of dust, the aspect of using Graebel Movers that I find most charming today is that the only dust on my stuff is my dust. After five months in storage and 1200+ miles of travel, the only dust to be seen is utterly recognizable as mine. There's the dust outline around where the paper was stored on that shelf, there's where the TV sat, and where it didn't. The shelves I dusted before moving are dust-free. The drawers I didn't...my dust!

Some of the little used baking paraphernalia that needed cleaning before it was packed really needed cleaning when it was unpacked. Especially the pastry sheet. Phew. Rancid. Some of the pans won an extra scrubbing thanks to the influence of four months at Fanhihall, where even the broiler looks brand new, when I know it's anything but.

I'm off to wash some of the dust and grime off myself, then it's back to the boxes, and the discoveries waiting inside.

Comments

Hello

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

Hi there, Geri! I'm reading the stories of your move and events surrounding them with great interest. It would seem obvious (but turns out not quite to be true) that with your having a new house, and Louie and me having a new house (okay, a double bungalow) that there would be a lot of notes to compare; but it seems as though we're dealing with different things, at least at this time. Last night, for instance, Louie and I unpacked a lot of boxes of stuff that had come straight from her late mother's apartment, some matched steel or aluminum stuff (pots and pans with really nice red and white patterns) and a few fine dishes. And we've only put about 5% of our books on shelves. But it's a fine, fine adventure, and we're glad to be where we are. Hoping you are the same....

scrubbing ...

[burningriver.livejournal.com]

I sort of figured there was going to need to be some additional scrubbing once you got to some of that stuff (and there certainly wasn't time to have done it on the packing end...!).

the good thing about extra scrubbing is that at least you can see results pretty quickly.

almost as good as wallpaper shreds around your feet!

[jbru.livejournal.com]

I needed to fax water ...

Dood! Can you fax chocolate too?

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You've got to love a moving company that moves your dust at no extra charge. Or maybe you were charged for it; did you pay by weight?

B

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

The interstate portion was by weight; storage was by volume. What I do know is that they came in *under* the estimate...maybe dust has a negative weight? That would explain why the houses filled with the most stuff are often the dustiest. They need all that dust to balance the load....