We pulled into Hartung last night just after 1am. After too many days in a tin box, we’d spent the last two in a Uhaul truck towing our car behind to return to Wisconsin. Now for unloading.
Our trip to Texas had not been a fun one. In the course of the last three weeks, we took off Easter Sunday; we took off one day to go to Brenham and I took off one day to go to San Antonio with Dellene to buy drawer pulls for our bedside tables in Mexico. Even on that day Justin got some work done on his own. Every other day, we were at the storage unit going through stuff and working to get out of that storage unit. Every stinking day.
Highlights of the trip: Easter dinner with Dellene’s family, playing Auntie Paula by doing homework with Luke and baking cakes with Harper and Brewer, and just visiting with Dellene. We just hadn’t seen each other in so, so long.
Another absolute highlight of the trip was getting to meet Yurig and Irene Petrov, our renters at Hartung. We ended up buying three huge shelving units from Home Depot, setting them up in the garage and then loading then up. Irene took a few pieces of furniture into the house too. Their ease is up in January and even if we find that we need to revisit this plan then, we will still be a few steps ahead. for now, it is all good. We ended up storing about 1/3 of our stuff there in Georgetown, bringing about 1/3 back to Green Bay and getting rid of the last 1/3 through selling, giving to goodwill and the Assistance League or giving to friends. Bottom line: we are out of the storage unit!
The daffodils were here to greet us. And so were Lloyd and Gloria. They wanted to chat (and honestly, we did too) but with paying the movers by the hour, we were moving. I'd forwarded our mail to Millway, but third class mail still cluttered our box and Gloria had been kind enough to collect that. Lloyd had been in the hospital and then in rehab for several weeks so it was nice to see him at home. Ric and AnneMarie came over to help us unload and that was a huge bonus.
Our lives were made richer through knowing Bruce Derr. Today we have a huge void and fond memories. I trust that Michael, Christopher and their families will find peace in the days ahead without their dad.
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