We signed the papers yesterday for the sale of our house here in Heidelberg. The official turnover day is mid-Feb but we have already provided a key since the buyer lives close and is going to start some rehab work well before then. He is also going to take care of finding homes/selling off/removing whatever winds up left that no one wants.
Much of the furniture that is here will end up with various friend’s adult children. It feels kind of strange in many ways to look at pictures and hear discussions of “kids” who I still picture as being in kindergarten even though that was obviously 20+ years ago.
Books
see the xerox boxes?
Remember all those books? The Xerox cartons contain 3361 books. The total remaining books here come to 8712 (including those 3361 above. Now I just need to go add in those books which have already found homes to come up with the winner of the “guess the numbers” contest.
Sorting
I was lucky enough to have a couple of other fiber friends stop by and leave with some magazines, yarn and shetland fleece.
There will be a final shipment to the US after the first of the year. There are some dishes that we want along with some good cookware, clothing. And of course, papers, files and books. I managed to condense everything into three clearly delineated collections. George has an estimate which I think is grossly under, but who am I to complain?
We will fly on Friday with more luggage than anyone with brains would take, but everything we take along doesn’t have to be shipped or paid separately for.
sunset
