Yesterday, Wednesday, I called our local grocery store and the only store we have at all hereabouts, in fact, to see if they had any cardboard boxes that I could start packing with. LO, the gal who answered said Yes, that tomorrow (now today) was Freight Day and they’d have a big load of boxes and I could have all I wanted.
Hey, stay with me. This is important. Have you PRICED cardboard boxes lately?
So this morning I drove the old pickup over and there were three bins filled with excellent empty boxes with the lids intact, and I loaded up about 35 of them inside the pickup bed canopy where they’d stay dry.
On arriving home I opened the canopy lid and dropped the tail gate, and AT THAT INSTANT, the rain stopped, the sky cleared, the sun came out AND A GOLDEN BEAM OF LIGHT SHONE DOWN UPON MY HEAD. Oh Yes, Brothers and Sisters, The Force was WITH me, the POWER was upon me and I proceeded to pack boxes all day in the glorious sunlight, halleleujah!
Today was the first full day of warm sun we’ve had in over two months now, and it came on the day I decided to go ahead and start packing in anticipation of getting the Hell out of here. You couldn’t ask for a more sure sign than that, that The Great Whatzit In The Sky or wherever it is approves of my efforts to leave here. I mean, can you? Of course not.
Some days are like that, things all go right. Enjoy those days. I do
Good on ya bro ! Are you gonna keep publishing this blog, when you get to your new place ?
Yes. The plan, in fact, is to drive out there and buy a home, then drive out again with a big U-Haul. That 20 acres has nothing on it and building permits in Kern County have reached their maximum Peter Principle. I may never actually live on it, it all remains to be seen. But I can hunt, camp, target shoot, explore, prospect and so forth. It’ll be great fun.
Excellent. Apart from the hunt and shoot obviously. Can’t I interest you in proper pursuits like feeding creatures with bread and jam?
PS The joy of getting stuff for free. Last year I needed some base for a path and the hardware store let me have all their broken slabs in return for a donation to the charity.