Got the move done on April 2 and we are here in central Illinois, about 20 miles from Peoria.
I am glad to have the move over with. Of course now is the work of unpacking and getting the house all set up for us to live.
My cousin has been great about helping with that. She has been stopping by and we manage to go through 10-15 boxes a day (banana box size, like you can get from the grocery store). I sort through and we have areas for: things to sell, things to give away/donate, things to throw away, and things to keep. I am so happy to say that at least 90% goes into one of the boxes that is not the "keep" area.
And there has also been several boxes of paper, plastic and other recycle items taken away and yesterday my hubby took a pickup truck load of things to a landfill.
We have also had some typical problems one finds when moving into an older home. First night here the ceiling fan in the living room came on by itself and we could not get it to turn off. Called out an electrician, which happened to be after hours. But I am glad we didn't wait till the next day. When the electrician got into the motor of the fan, the pull chain that you used to change fan speed or turn it off, was stuck in melted plastic. The motor of the fan was bad and melted some plastic of the motor. Luckily we had a new ceiling fan in a box that we could get to and the guy put up a whole new fan for us. Next day had to get plumbers out right away to open up drain pipes in the house. Ahhh, just reminds me how much I love Clayton Homes and Vanderbuilt Mortgage for this "refurbished" home.
They are who did the refurbish work. Now that word is a laugh - work.
We had friends who came by the night before we moved and caught the chickens and got all them into our closed in horse trailer. They traveled just fine. We unloaded them directly into their chicken house, and had them in there for about 4 days with food and water. So they would know exactly where safe shelter is, food is, water is, perches, and their nest boxes are there. They have been in the small pen for the past week. It is only about 20 ft x 20 ft, and has wire over it. Sometime this week we will let them out into their 3-4 acres. The moving only slowed down their egg laying a bit, the first few days we only got about half a dozen eggs a day but now they are laying about 20 or more eggs a day. That is out of 25 chickens. One of those is a americana rooster and a bantam japenese black tail rooster. Heck, 6 or 7 eggs was found in the horse trailer that they had been in for less then 24hours. LOL
I managed to get out this past Thursday, April 11, to go get the X-rays of my broken leg done for my surgeon back at St. Louis. He should have the x-rays by tomorrow and call me. Will find out if any healing has happened at all since the last set of X-rays on Feb. 27. And find out if he is going to do more surgery for bone graft if no healing has happened.
I am glad to have the move over with. Of course now is the work of unpacking and getting the house all set up for us to live.
My cousin has been great about helping with that. She has been stopping by and we manage to go through 10-15 boxes a day (banana box size, like you can get from the grocery store). I sort through and we have areas for: things to sell, things to give away/donate, things to throw away, and things to keep. I am so happy to say that at least 90% goes into one of the boxes that is not the "keep" area.
We have also had some typical problems one finds when moving into an older home. First night here the ceiling fan in the living room came on by itself and we could not get it to turn off. Called out an electrician, which happened to be after hours. But I am glad we didn't wait till the next day. When the electrician got into the motor of the fan, the pull chain that you used to change fan speed or turn it off, was stuck in melted plastic. The motor of the fan was bad and melted some plastic of the motor. Luckily we had a new ceiling fan in a box that we could get to and the guy put up a whole new fan for us. Next day had to get plumbers out right away to open up drain pipes in the house. Ahhh, just reminds me how much I love Clayton Homes and Vanderbuilt Mortgage for this "refurbished" home.
We had friends who came by the night before we moved and caught the chickens and got all them into our closed in horse trailer. They traveled just fine. We unloaded them directly into their chicken house, and had them in there for about 4 days with food and water. So they would know exactly where safe shelter is, food is, water is, perches, and their nest boxes are there. They have been in the small pen for the past week. It is only about 20 ft x 20 ft, and has wire over it. Sometime this week we will let them out into their 3-4 acres. The moving only slowed down their egg laying a bit, the first few days we only got about half a dozen eggs a day but now they are laying about 20 or more eggs a day. That is out of 25 chickens. One of those is a americana rooster and a bantam japenese black tail rooster. Heck, 6 or 7 eggs was found in the horse trailer that they had been in for less then 24hours. LOL
I managed to get out this past Thursday, April 11, to go get the X-rays of my broken leg done for my surgeon back at St. Louis. He should have the x-rays by tomorrow and call me. Will find out if any healing has happened at all since the last set of X-rays on Feb. 27. And find out if he is going to do more surgery for bone graft if no healing has happened.
That's awesome!! 
