Sylvia's Scenario

After moving from Idaho to Seattle eleven days ago, my kitchen is finally unpacked!  I'm so excited.  The kitchen was actually third on the priority list.  When we returned from  Iowa  on Friday, the next day we started unpacking our clothes.  That took the whole day and another enormous pile of Goodwill soon appeared.  It's overwhelming to see how much stuff one accumulates over time and I did a lot of cleaning out while I was packing, but not enough.  The next day we unpacked bathroom stuff.  I cleaned out all my old makeup and threw out all the outdated first-aid items.  Again, amazing how stuff  accumulates.   Monday we started on the kitchen.  So many boxes...and again, several boxes for the Goodwill.  So, you're probably asking why did I move so much stuff I'm just throwing away or giving to the Goodwill?  I'm taking more time to think about what I want and don't want and what I want to fill this nice house with.  It just seems easier to decide now

Our  move  from Idaho to Seattle is finally complete.  The moving truck came Saturday, August 15th, two days ahead of schedule which was fine with us, we were eager to get going. But with two days less of preparing, we were busy every minute of our last week in Idaho.  Fortunately, we didn't have so much to pack since we packed a lot during  phase two  of our move. Our last week, we  continued to sell items on Craigslist with success and had some time to spend with everyone saying goodbye.  Soon the truck was full, the house was empty, the inside cleaned, the lawn mowed and we were ready to hit the road one last time for that  drive   to Seattle. From the time we made the offer on our Seattle house on April 21st to the day we moved in on August 16th, it was nearly 4 months. Moving takes a lot of patience, planning, organizing and hard work. We had great movers who moved everything without a hitch and even took some time to admire the view. With the h

I haven't been doing a lot of cooking lately during this  phase two   of moving but I got a craving the other day for cobbler because the peaches are so gorgeous and addicting right now.  Our local grocery store made an announcement that its Peach-o-Rama time and we've been eating them daily. The peaches are picked in Wapato, Washington at a local orchard called  Pence Orchard , immediately put into the shipping boxes within 3 minutes of picking and arrive at the store within hours of being on the tree. And they taste like it, too.  We can't stop eating them.  Thus, the craving for peach cobbler.  We invited my family over for   Seafair Sunday  which is the biggest day of  Seafair  in Seattle.  Seafair is a festival that goes for several weeks in Seattle during the summer with the highlight being Seafair Sunday when the hydroplanes race on Lake Washington and the Blue Angels perform overhead.  The first hydroplane races were in 1951 on Lake Washington and for Seattle old