Finally moved in and settled (long)

Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.
The move went well, took 6 hours and 2 trips, but I got them to move
everything and didn't have to drive back and forth with my car a whole
bunch of times. I got them to place all the furniture in the correct
spots so I didn't have to move that around and they put the boxes into
the correct rooms so it was easier for me to unpack.
The movers actually showed up an hour late, it was the day after
daylight savings started and I think someone forgot to change their
clocks!!! Oh well, I was all ready and when they didn't show, I decided
to give getting my king sized mattress off the bed another go. In a
superwoman effort, I managed to heave it off and tilt it up against the
wall. Then I was able to actually take the whole bed apart. I stripped
every screw but got them out so that's all that matters!!!
After that, I saw a huge huntsman spider under my computer desk. I got
out the vacuum cleaner and went to suck it up but it moved away. I
crawled under the desk to find it and I *think* I got it but
simultaneously I felt something on the back of my neck and also
simultaneously the movers arrived. I got totally spooked and screamed
and bashed my head on the underside of my desk, jumped out and began
shaking out the back of my shirt. The movers were looking in the window
right next to my desk and were just about ****ing themselves laughing at
my antics. But when I let them in and told them about the huntsman,
they stopped laughing and said they were not touching the desk unless I
could guarantee it was spider free. Pussies ;-)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I did get the spider with the vacuum because I
never saw it again during the move.
During all the loading up of the truck, I had Vino locked in the
bathroom. He didn't like that at all and yowled pitifully. I went in
and visited with him for 5 min every 20 min or so but it didn't really
help. He wanted to be where he could see the action!
Once everything was moved over to the new house and the guys with the
truck had left, I drove back to the old house and picked up Vino and
brought him to the new house. I could tell he was quite concerned when
I put him in his carrier and loaded him in the car. It was like he was
thinking, "Oh no, here we go again, I'm in for a loooooong move." But
when we were already at the new house in 5 minutes, he was really happy.
I let him out and he immediately went exploring. He's such a good mover
now, he doesn't even low walk anymore. He recognized all of his
furniture and boxes and made sure to rub himself on everything just to
say hello again.
I decided that I was going to spend my first night in the new house in
luxury and style and not on a mattress on the floor, so I started by
putting my bed together again. I can't believe I managed it but it
actually helped that there were boxes and suitcases all over the place
and I could rest pieces of the bed on stuff while putting in (new)
screws, etc. Got the mattress on too and new sheets, etc. and I was
seriously chuffed! I am woman, hear me....yawn!
Went to bed and heard Vino use his litterbox in the laundry room, heard
him crunch on some kibble in the kitchen and then he came to bed just
like always. What a good boy! I was so proud of how fast he adjusted.
The next morning I woke up early. I have no curtains yet and have a
huge glass wall on one side of the bedroom. Luckily we just got
daylight savings, or I'd have been up even earlier! Anyway, I woke up
and looked out at my view of paddocks and a couple of huge gnarly peppi
trees and saw a little family of kangaroos about 20 meters away. The
mom had a quite big joey in the pouch. So cute! I propped up my pillow
and continued watching. The joey got out of the pouch and made 3 wobbly
jumps away from the mom. Then it jumped back. Then it started doing
laps around the mom while the mom craned her neck around to keep an eye
on him the whole time. It was the most adorable thing I've ever seen!
I watched for about 30 min. Vino saw them too and was mildly curious
but not overly excited. But it's a whole nother story with the birds.
I've got a lot of ringnecks (green parrots) and kookaburras in the peppi
trees and you can see them flying around all day long. Vino loves
watching them.
Over the next few days I had a lot of workmen in & out, doing last
minute things (like putting on all my kitchen cabinet handles, amazing
how important those become when you start wanting to put stuff away!).
Vino would be locked in the bedroom during these times and he didn't
like all the noises from the power tools very much. One time I couldn't
find him at all and thought one guy had let him out. I wandered around
outside, calling him but no sign of him, outside or inside. Finally I
thought I noticed a funny lump on the bed so I lifted the blanket and
there he was!
So for the first couple of days I was without a phone and then another
couple of days with no internet and then I got a temporary dial-up
connection while they were processing my broadband application and then,
finally, just a few days ago, broadband!!!!! Wooo hooo! When we first
began the building process, I had been told that there was absolutely no
chance that I'd get broadband out there and no chance of it ever coming
to the area. I totally freaked and began researching satellite and all
sorts of nonsense. But it's so funny. The 2 daughters of the "founding
family" of the whole area, the family after whom a huge highway is named
and the next town as well, these 2 daughters each had a house built just
up the road from us at the same time as our house was being built. And
suddenly, broadband was available!!! Wow, magic! I guess it pays to
have influential neighbours ;-)
So over the next couple of weeks, I got everything unpacked and
organized. Vino got totally settled in and now acts like he's never
lived anywhere else. And surprisingly, he hasn't been bugging me to go
outside at all. This is a huge relief since I was prepared for tons of
yowling and glass scratching. Dennis is home in 6 days and I think at
that point we will introduce Vino to his catflap. That way there's 2 of
us to keep an eye on him in the beginning. I'd hate to lose Vino with
Dennis away. That would be about the worst nightmare I could imagine!
But seriously, I doubt he'll go far, he's just interested in parking
himself in a sunny spot and watching the world go by nowadays.
So I've not read the group in weeks and have thousands of unread posts.
There is no way I can ever catch up so I've had to mark them all as
read. Please feel free to fill me in on any pertinent news that I
missed out on. Otherwise, please accept blanket purrs for all who need
them.
Oh yeah, I'm still working on getting more pics of the house together
but again, haven't really had any time. I'll post a link when I'm done
that.
Hugs & purrs,
--
Britta
Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness
overflow.
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson

It sounds as though you and Vino handled the move really well.

I forget - where in Australia are you? Somewhere on the West coast?

I just got home (Southern California) from a trip to Australia. I didn't
get to the west coast this time. I visited Sydney, Alice Springs, Adelaide,
Broken Hill and Hobart.

Joy

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.
The move went well, took 6 hours and 2 trips, but I got them to move
everything and didn't have to drive back and forth with my car a whole
bunch of times. I got them to place all the furniture in the correct
spots so I didn't have to move that around and they put the boxes into the
correct rooms so it was easier for me to unpack.
The movers actually showed up an hour late, it was the day after daylight
savings started and I think someone forgot to change their clocks!!! Oh
well, I was all ready and when they didn't show, I decided to give getting
my king sized mattress off the bed another go. In a superwoman effort, I
managed to heave it off and tilt it up against the wall. Then I was able
to actually take the whole bed apart. I stripped every screw but got them
out so that's all that matters!!!
After that, I saw a huge huntsman spider under my computer desk. I got
out the vacuum cleaner and went to suck it up but it moved away. I
crawled under the desk to find it and I *think* I got it but
simultaneously I felt something on the back of my neck and also
simultaneously the movers arrived. I got totally spooked and screamed and
bashed my head on the underside of my desk, jumped out and began shaking
out the back of my shirt. The movers were looking in the window right
next to my desk and were just about ****ing themselves laughing at my
antics. But when I let them in and told them about the huntsman, they
stopped laughing and said they were not touching the desk unless I could
guarantee it was spider free. Pussies ;-)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I did get the spider with the vacuum because I
never saw it again during the move.
During all the loading up of the truck, I had Vino locked in the bathroom.
He didn't like that at all and yowled pitifully. I went in and visited
with him for 5 min every 20 min or so but it didn't really help. He
wanted to be where he could see the action!
Once everything was moved over to the new house and the guys with the
truck had left, I drove back to the old house and picked up Vino and
brought him to the new house. I could tell he was quite concerned when I
put him in his carrier and loaded him in the car. It was like he was
thinking, "Oh no, here we go again, I'm in for a loooooong move." But
when we were already at the new house in 5 minutes, he was really happy. I
let him out and he immediately went exploring. He's such a good mover
now, he doesn't even low walk anymore. He recognized all of his furniture
and boxes and made sure to rub himself on everything just to say hello
again.
I decided that I was going to spend my first night in the new house in
luxury and style and not on a mattress on the floor, so I started by
putting my bed together again. I can't believe I managed it but it
actually helped that there were boxes and suitcases all over the place and
I could rest pieces of the bed on stuff while putting in (new) screws,
etc. Got the mattress on too and new sheets, etc. and I was seriously
chuffed! I am woman, hear me....yawn!
Went to bed and heard Vino use his litterbox in the laundry room, heard
him crunch on some kibble in the kitchen and then he came to bed just like
always. What a good boy! I was so proud of how fast he adjusted.
The next morning I woke up early. I have no curtains yet and have a huge
glass wall on one side of the bedroom. Luckily we just got daylight
savings, or I'd have been up even earlier! Anyway, I woke up and looked
out at my view of paddocks and a couple of huge gnarly peppi trees and saw
a little family of kangaroos about 20 meters away. The mom had a quite
big joey in the pouch. So cute! I propped up my pillow and continued
watching. The joey got out of the pouch and made 3 wobbly jumps away from
the mom. Then it jumped back. Then it started doing laps around the mom
while the mom craned her neck around to keep an eye on him the whole time.
It was the most adorable thing I've ever seen! I watched for about 30 min.
Vino saw them too and was mildly curious but not overly excited. But it's
a whole nother story with the birds. I've got a lot of ringnecks (green
parrots) and kookaburras in the peppi trees and you can see them flying
around all day long. Vino loves watching them.
Over the next few days I had a lot of workmen in & out, doing last minute
things (like putting on all my kitchen cabinet handles, amazing how
important those become when you start wanting to put stuff away!). Vino
would be locked in the bedroom during these times and he didn't like all
the noises from the power tools very much. One time I couldn't find him
at all and thought one guy had let him out. I wandered around outside,
calling him but no sign of him, outside or inside. Finally I thought I
noticed a funny lump on the bed so I lifted the blanket and there he was!
So for the first couple of days I was without a phone and then another
couple of days with no internet and then I got a temporary dial-up
connection while they were processing my broadband application and then,
finally, just a few days ago, broadband!!!!! Wooo hooo! When we first
began the building process, I had been told that there was absolutely no
chance that I'd get broadband out there and no chance of it ever coming to
the area. I totally freaked and began researching satellite and all sorts
of nonsense. But it's so funny. The 2 daughters of the "founding family"
of the whole area, the family after whom a huge highway is named and the
next town as well, these 2 daughters each had a house built just up the
road from us at the same time as our house was being built. And suddenly,
broadband was available!!! Wow, magic! I guess it pays to have
influential neighbours ;-)
So over the next couple of weeks, I got everything unpacked and organized.
Vino got totally settled in and now acts like he's never lived anywhere
else. And surprisingly, he hasn't been bugging me to go outside at all.
This is a huge relief since I was prepared for tons of yowling and glass
scratching. Dennis is home in 6 days and I think at that point we will
introduce Vino to his catflap. That way there's 2 of us to keep an eye on
him in the beginning. I'd hate to lose Vino with Dennis away. That would
be about the worst nightmare I could imagine! But seriously, I doubt he'll
go far, he's just interested in parking himself in a sunny spot and
watching the world go by nowadays.
So I've not read the group in weeks and have thousands of unread posts.
There is no way I can ever catch up so I've had to mark them all as read.
Please feel free to fill me in on any pertinent news that I missed out on.
Otherwise, please accept blanket purrs for all who need them.
Oh yeah, I'm still working on getting more pics of the house together but
again, haven't really had any time. I'll post a link when I'm done that.
Hugs & purrs,
--
Britta
Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness
overflow.
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson

badwilson wrote:
So over the next couple of weeks, I got everything unpacked and
organized. Vino got totally settled in and now acts like he's never
lived anywhere else. And surprisingly, he hasn't been bugging me to go

He's such a good boy! Congrats on the move!

--
Victor M. Martinez
Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)
Send your spam he
Email me he

badwilson wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.

Good to hear from you, Britta. Sounds like the move went really well.
Cool about the kangaroo family outside your window! Skritches to Vino
for being such a good sport.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

badwilson wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.
snip

Congratulations on the move. I'm so glad Vino took it well, though not
surprised. Looking forward to new pictures, especially of Vino in his new
domain.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

wow, what excitement you've had! Glad the move and Vino
and you are doing great. Keep us updated.

Lily & her mama

--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.
The move went well, took 6 hours and 2 trips, but I got them to move
everything and didn't have to drive back and forth with my car a whole
bunch of times. I got them to place all the furniture in the correct
spots so I didn't have to move that around and they put the boxes into the
correct rooms so it was easier for me to unpack.
The movers actually showed up an hour late, it was the day after daylight
savings started and I think someone forgot to change their clocks!!! Oh
well, I was all ready and when they didn't show, I decided to give getting
my king sized mattress off the bed another go. In a superwoman effort, I
managed to heave it off and tilt it up against the wall. Then I was able
to actually take the whole bed apart. I stripped every screw but got them
out so that's all that matters!!!
After that, I saw a huge huntsman spider under my computer desk. I got
out the vacuum cleaner and went to suck it up but it moved away. I
crawled under the desk to find it and I *think* I got it but
simultaneously I felt something on the back of my neck and also
simultaneously the movers arrived. I got totally spooked and screamed and
bashed my head on the underside of my desk, jumped out and began shaking
out the back of my shirt. The movers were looking in the window right
next to my desk and were just about ****ing themselves laughing at my
antics. But when I let them in and told them about the huntsman, they
stopped laughing and said they were not touching the desk unless I could
guarantee it was spider free. Pussies ;-)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I did get the spider with the vacuum because I
never saw it again during the move.
During all the loading up of the truck, I had Vino locked in the bathroom.
He didn't like that at all and yowled pitifully. I went in and visited
with him for 5 min every 20 min or so but it didn't really help. He
wanted to be where he could see the action!
Once everything was moved over to the new house and the guys with the
truck had left, I drove back to the old house and picked up Vino and
brought him to the new house. I could tell he was quite concerned when I
put him in his carrier and loaded him in the car. It was like he was
thinking, "Oh no, here we go again, I'm in for a loooooong move." But
when we were already at the new house in 5 minutes, he was really happy. I
let him out and he immediately went exploring. He's such a good mover
now, he doesn't even low walk anymore. He recognized all of his furniture
and boxes and made sure to rub himself on everything just to say hello
again.
I decided that I was going to spend my first night in the new house in
luxury and style and not on a mattress on the floor, so I started by
putting my bed together again. I can't believe I managed it but it
actually helped that there were boxes and suitcases all over the place and
I could rest pieces of the bed on stuff while putting in (new) screws,
etc. Got the mattress on too and new sheets, etc. and I was seriously
chuffed! I am woman, hear me....yawn!
Went to bed and heard Vino use his litterbox in the laundry room, heard
him crunch on some kibble in the kitchen and then he came to bed just like
always. What a good boy! I was so proud of how fast he adjusted.
The next morning I woke up early. I have no curtains yet and have a huge
glass wall on one side of the bedroom. Luckily we just got daylight
savings, or I'd have been up even earlier! Anyway, I woke up and looked
out at my view of paddocks and a couple of huge gnarly peppi trees and saw
a little family of kangaroos about 20 meters away. The mom had a quite
big joey in the pouch. So cute! I propped up my pillow and continued
watching. The joey got out of the pouch and made 3 wobbly jumps away from
the mom. Then it jumped back. Then it started doing laps around the mom
while the mom craned her neck around to keep an eye on him the whole time.
It was the most adorable thing I've ever seen! I watched for about 30 min.
Vino saw them too and was mildly curious but not overly excited. But it's
a whole nother story with the birds. I've got a lot of ringnecks (green
parrots) and kookaburras in the peppi trees and you can see them flying
around all day long. Vino loves watching them.
Over the next few days I had a lot of workmen in & out, doing last minute
things (like putting on all my kitchen cabinet handles, amazing how
important those become when you start wanting to put stuff away!). Vino
would be locked in the bedroom during these times and he didn't like all
the noises from the power tools very much. One time I couldn't find him
at all and thought one guy had let him out. I wandered around outside,
calling him but no sign of him, outside or inside. Finally I thought I
noticed a funny lump on the bed so I lifted the blanket and there he was!
So for the first couple of days I was without a phone and then another
couple of days with no internet and then I got a temporary dial-up
connection while they were processing my broadband application and then,
finally, just a few days ago, broadband!!!!! Wooo hooo! When we first
began the building process, I had been told that there was absolutely no
chance that I'd get broadband out there and no chance of it ever coming to
the area. I totally freaked and began researching satellite and all sorts
of nonsense. But it's so funny. The 2 daughters of the "founding family"
of the whole area, the family after whom a huge highway is named and the
next town as well, these 2 daughters each had a house built just up the
road from us at the same time as our house was being built. And suddenly,
broadband was available!!! Wow, magic! I guess it pays to have
influential neighbours ;-)
So over the next couple of weeks, I got everything unpacked and organized.
Vino got totally settled in and now acts like he's never lived anywhere
else. And surprisingly, he hasn't been bugging me to go outside at all.
This is a huge relief since I was prepared for tons of yowling and glass
scratching. Dennis is home in 6 days and I think at that point we will
introduce Vino to his catflap. That way there's 2 of us to keep an eye on
him in the beginning. I'd hate to lose Vino with Dennis away. That would
be about the worst nightmare I could imagine! But seriously, I doubt he'll
go far, he's just interested in parking himself in a sunny spot and
watching the world go by nowadays.
So I've not read the group in weeks and have thousands of unread posts.
There is no way I can ever catch up so I've had to mark them all as read.
Please feel free to fill me in on any pertinent news that I missed out on.
Otherwise, please accept blanket purrs for all who need them.
Oh yeah, I'm still working on getting more pics of the house together but
again, haven't really had any time. I'll post a link when I'm done that.
Hugs & purrs,
--
Britta
Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness
overflow.
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson

badwilson wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.
The move went well, took 6 hours and 2 trips, but I got them to move
everything and didn't have to drive back and forth with my car a whole
bunch of times. I got them to place all the furniture in the correct
spots so I didn't have to move that around and they put the boxes into
the correct rooms so it was easier for me to unpack.
The movers actually showed up an hour late, it was the day after
daylight savings started and I think someone forgot to change their
clocks!!! Oh well, I was all ready and when they didn't show, I decided
to give getting my king sized mattress off the bed another go. In a
superwoman effort, I managed to heave it off and tilt it up against the
wall. Then I was able to actually take the whole bed apart. I stripped
every screw but got them out so that's all that matters!!!
After that, I saw a huge huntsman spider under my computer desk. I got
out the vacuum cleaner and went to suck it up but it moved away. I
crawled under the desk to find it and I *think* I got it but
simultaneously I felt something on the back of my neck and also
simultaneously the movers arrived. I got totally spooked and screamed
and bashed my head on the underside of my desk, jumped out and began
shaking out the back of my shirt. The movers were looking in the window
right next to my desk and were just about ****ing themselves laughing at
my antics. But when I let them in and told them about the huntsman,
they stopped laughing and said they were not touching the desk unless I
could guarantee it was spider free. Pussies ;-)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I did get the spider with the vacuum because I
never saw it again during the move.
During all the loading up of the truck, I had Vino locked in the
bathroom. He didn't like that at all and yowled pitifully. I went in
and visited with him for 5 min every 20 min or so but it didn't really
help. He wanted to be where he could see the action!
Once everything was moved over to the new house and the guys with the
truck had left, I drove back to the old house and picked up Vino and
brought him to the new house. I could tell he was quite concerned when
I put him in his carrier and loaded him in the car. It was like he was
thinking, "Oh no, here we go again, I'm in for a loooooong move." But
when we were already at the new house in 5 minutes, he was really happy.
I let him out and he immediately went exploring. He's such a good mover
now, he doesn't even low walk anymore. He recognized all of his
furniture and boxes and made sure to rub himself on everything just to
say hello again.
I decided that I was going to spend my first night in the new house in
luxury and style and not on a mattress on the floor, so I started by
putting my bed together again. I can't believe I managed it but it
actually helped that there were boxes and suitcases all over the place
and I could rest pieces of the bed on stuff while putting in (new)
screws, etc. Got the mattress on too and new sheets, etc. and I was
seriously chuffed! I am woman, hear me....yawn!
Went to bed and heard Vino use his litterbox in the laundry room, heard
him crunch on some kibble in the kitchen and then he came to bed just
like always. What a good boy! I was so proud of how fast he adjusted.
The next morning I woke up early. I have no curtains yet and have a
huge glass wall on one side of the bedroom. Luckily we just got
daylight savings, or I'd have been up even earlier! Anyway, I woke up
and looked out at my view of paddocks and a couple of huge gnarly peppi
trees and saw a little family of kangaroos about 20 meters away. The
mom had a quite big joey in the pouch. So cute! I propped up my pillow
and continued watching. The joey got out of the pouch and made 3 wobbly
jumps away from the mom. Then it jumped back. Then it started doing
laps around the mom while the mom craned her neck around to keep an eye
on him the whole time. It was the most adorable thing I've ever seen! I
watched for about 30 min. Vino saw them too and was mildly curious but
not overly excited. But it's a whole nother story with the birds. I've
got a lot of ringnecks (green parrots) and kookaburras in the peppi
trees and you can see them flying around all day long. Vino loves
watching them.
Over the next few days I had a lot of workmen in & out, doing last
minute things (like putting on all my kitchen cabinet handles, amazing
how important those become when you start wanting to put stuff away!).
Vino would be locked in the bedroom during these times and he didn't
like all the noises from the power tools very much. One time I couldn't
find him at all and thought one guy had let him out. I wandered around
outside, calling him but no sign of him, outside or inside. Finally I
thought I noticed a funny lump on the bed so I lifted the blanket and
there he was!
So for the first couple of days I was without a phone and then another
couple of days with no internet and then I got a temporary dial-up
connection while they were processing my broadband application and then,
finally, just a few days ago, broadband!!!!! Wooo hooo! When we first
began the building process, I had been told that there was absolutely no
chance that I'd get broadband out there and no chance of it ever coming
to the area. I totally freaked and began researching satellite and all
sorts of nonsense. But it's so funny. The 2 daughters of the "founding
family" of the whole area, the family after whom a huge highway is named
and the next town as well, these 2 daughters each had a house built just
up the road from us at the same time as our house was being built. And
suddenly, broadband was available!!! Wow, magic! I guess it pays to
have influential neighbours ;-)
So over the next couple of weeks, I got everything unpacked and
organized. Vino got totally settled in and now acts like he's never
lived anywhere else. And surprisingly, he hasn't been bugging me to go
outside at all. This is a huge relief since I was prepared for tons of
yowling and glass scratching. Dennis is home in 6 days and I think at
that point we will introduce Vino to his catflap. That way there's 2 of
us to keep an eye on him in the beginning. I'd hate to lose Vino with
Dennis away. That would be about the worst nightmare I could imagine!
But seriously, I doubt he'll go far, he's just interested in parking
himself in a sunny spot and watching the world go by nowadays.
So I've not read the group in weeks and have thousands of unread posts.
There is no way I can ever catch up so I've had to mark them all as
read. Please feel free to fill me in on any pertinent news that I
missed out on. Otherwise, please accept blanket purrs for all who need
them.
Oh yeah, I'm still working on getting more pics of the house together
but again, haven't really had any time. I'll post a link when I'm done
that.
Hugs & purrs,

Can't resist reassuring you that the spider is probably right now
crawling back up the vacuum cleaner hose to reemerge in your new place.
Those critters are ugly but tough
Congrats on the move. Some pics of his royal orangeness in his new
domain would go down well.

Helen Wheels wrote:
Can't resist reassuring you that the spider is probably right now
crawling back up the vacuum cleaner hose to reemerge in your new place.
Those critters are ugly but tough

shudder OMG... shudder

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Helen Wheels wrote:

Can't resist reassuring you that the spider is probably right now
crawling back up the vacuum cleaner hose to reemerge in your new place.
Those critters are ugly but tough

Eek, Helen! Don't tell Britta that!!

Congrats on the move. Some pics of his royal orangeness in his new
domain would go down well.

Yes, I want to see that, too. I also want to see how you've set things
up in the new place. I love seeing how people decorate new homes, and
you have all that gorgeous stuff from Thailand.

Congrats!

Joyce

Hi Joy, we are in Margaret River, which is about 3 hours south of Perth.
So on the west coast. It is a lovely area and we are very happy here.
We've only been to the east coast once and that was 12 years ago when we
got married on Dunk Island. We definitely have to take some trips to
explore the country. Trouble is, we like it so much where we are and
are getting so settled in, we don't even feel like going anywhere for a
looooong time!
--
Britta
Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness
overflow.
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson



Joy wrote:
It sounds as though you and Vino handled the move really well.

I forget - where in Australia are you? Somewhere on the West coast?

I just got home (Southern California) from a trip to Australia. I
didn't get to the west coast this time. I visited Sydney, Alice
Springs, Adelaide, Broken Hill and Hobart.

Joy

"badwilson" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone!
Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband.
The move went well, took 6 hours and 2 trips, but I got them to move
everything and didn't have to drive back and forth with my car a
whole bunch of times. I got them to place all the furniture in the
correct spots so I didn't have to move that around and they put the
boxes into the correct rooms so it was easier for me to unpack.
The movers actually showed up an hour late, it was the day after
daylight savings started and I think someone forgot to change their
clocks!!! Oh well, I was all ready and when they didn't show, I
decided to give getting my king sized mattress off the bed another
go. In a superwoman effort, I managed to heave it off and tilt it
up against the wall. Then I was able to actually take the whole bed
apart. I stripped every screw but got them out so that's all that
matters!!! After that, I saw a huge huntsman spider under my computer
desk. I
got out the vacuum cleaner and went to suck it up but it moved away.
I crawled under the desk to find it and I *think* I got it but
simultaneously I felt something on the back of my neck and also
simultaneously the movers arrived. I got totally spooked and
screamed and bashed my head on the underside of my desk, jumped out
and began shaking out the back of my shirt. The movers were looking
in the window right next to my desk and were just about ****ing
themselves laughing at my antics. But when I let them in and told
them about the huntsman, they stopped laughing and said they were
not touching the desk unless I could guarantee it was spider free.
Pussies ;-) Anyway, I'm pretty sure I did get the spider with the
vacuum because
I never saw it again during the move.
During all the loading up of the truck, I had Vino locked in the
bathroom. He didn't like that at all and yowled pitifully. I went
in and visited with him for 5 min every 20 min or so but it didn't
really help. He wanted to be where he could see the action!
Once everything was moved over to the new house and the guys with the
truck had left, I drove back to the old house and picked up Vino and
brought him to the new house. I could tell he was quite concerned
when I put him in his carrier and loaded him in the car. It was
like he was thinking, "Oh no, here we go again, I'm in for a
loooooong move." But when we were already at the new house in 5
minutes, he was really happy. I let him out and he immediately went
exploring. He's such a good mover now, he doesn't even low walk
anymore. He recognized all of his furniture and boxes and made sure
to rub himself on everything just to say hello again.
I decided that I was going to spend my first night in the new house
in luxury and style and not on a mattress on the floor, so I started
by putting my bed together again. I can't believe I managed it but
it actually helped that there were boxes and suitcases all over the
place and I could rest pieces of the bed on stuff while putting in
(new) screws, etc. Got the mattress on too and new sheets, etc.
and I was seriously chuffed! I am woman, hear me....yawn!
Went to bed and heard Vino use his litterbox in the laundry room,
heard him crunch on some kibble in the kitchen and then he came to
bed just like always. What a good boy! I was so proud of how fast
he adjusted. The next morning I woke up early. I have no curtains
yet and have a
huge glass wall on one side of the bedroom. Luckily we just got
daylight savings, or I'd have been up even earlier! Anyway, I woke
up and looked out at my view of paddocks and a couple of huge gnarly
peppi trees and saw a little family of kangaroos about 20 meters
away. The mom had a quite big joey in the pouch. So cute! I
propped up my pillow and continued watching. The joey got out of
the pouch and made 3 wobbly jumps away from the mom. Then it jumped
back. Then it started doing laps around the mom while the mom
craned her neck around to keep an eye on him the whole time. It was
the most adorable thing I've ever seen! I watched for about 30 min.
Vino saw them too and was mildly curious but not overly excited. But
it's a whole nother story with the birds. I've got a lot of
ringnecks (green parrots) and kookaburras in the peppi trees and you
can see them flying around all day long. Vino loves watching them.
Over the next few days I had a lot of workmen in & out, doing last
minute things (like putting on all my kitchen cabinet handles,
amazing how important those become when you start wanting to put
stuff away!). Vino would be locked in the bedroom during these times
and he didn't like all the noises from the power tools very much. One
time I couldn't find him at all and thought one guy had let him
out. I wandered around outside, calling him but no sign of him,
outside or inside. Finally I thought I noticed a funny lump on the
bed so I lifted the blanket and there he was! So for the first
couple of days I was without a phone and then another couple of days
with no internet and then I got a temporary dial-up connection while
they were processing my broadband application and then, finally,
just a few days ago, broadband!!!!! Wooo hooo! When we first
began the building process, I had been told that there was
absolutely no chance that I'd get broadband out there and no chance
of it ever coming to the area. I totally freaked and began
researching satellite and all sorts of nonsense. But it's so funny.
The 2 daughters of the "founding family" of the whole area, the
family after whom a huge highway is named and the next town as well,
these 2 daughters each had a house built just up the road from us at
the same time as our house was being built. And suddenly, broadband
was available!!! Wow, magic! I guess it pays to have influential
neighbours ;-) So over the next couple of weeks, I got everything
unpacked and
organized. Vino got totally settled in and now acts like he's never
lived anywhere else. And surprisingly, he hasn't been bugging me to
go outside at all. This is a huge relief since I was prepared for
tons of yowling and glass scratching. Dennis is home in 6 days and
I think at that point we will introduce Vino to his catflap. That
way there's 2 of us to keep an eye on him in the beginning. I'd
hate to lose Vino with Dennis away. That would be about the worst
nightmare I could imagine! But seriously, I doubt he'll go far, he's
just interested in parking himself in a sunny spot and watching the
world go by nowadays. So I've not read the group in weeks and have
thousands of unread
posts. There is no way I can ever catch up so I've had to mark them
all as read. Please feel free to fill me in on any pertinent news
that I missed out on. Otherwise, please accept blanket purrs for all
who need them. Oh yeah, I'm still working on getting more pics of the
house
together but again, haven't really had any time. I'll post a link
when I'm done that. Hugs & purrs,
--
Britta
Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with
happiness overflow.
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson