1 Husband, 1 wife, 3 dogs and 4 chickens head South -The Move Part 2!

Well after the first move we had a frantic week of packing, packing and more packing, plus some cleaning and also catching up with an old friend from England, who happened to be in Seattle for business, 2 weeks later and he would have missed us completely!  His business trip was perfect timing, although I don't think he believed me when I told him my house didn't normally look in such disarray!

FINALLY the day arrived of the big move, coincidently it was almost 2 years to the day that we had completed on our Port Orford property, we had originally said 18 months until the move, so only 6 months out of our original plan! and what a lot we have had done in those 2 years!

The day arrived and we were all packed up and ready for the final 10 hour trip, another convoy! Special Thanks for my lovely ex-neighbor Tracy who did a mercy dash to the charity shop the day prior to the move to get me an audio book! turned out to be a really great book!!!!

We made it safe and sound, all of us, chickens included!! they traveled really well, better than I expected, we got there just before dark so they spent the night in their boxes in the back of the truck.

Then they moved into their new coop, and seemed to approve!

And then today I put up a fenced run for them, I need to add some better corner posts and we are going to make a wooden gate to match our big gates!! you know its all about consistency with this project, I was so happy to give them some more freedom, they looked happy out dust bathing in the sunshine.

We have been busy getting ourselves settled, currently all our stuff is in the garage, we are going to wait a couple of weeks before sorting it all out and putting it into the container, as we anticipate a few items in some of those boxes being needed! and already we have had a few things out of them.  Also for the next few weeks Gareth will be concentrating on getting the trailer and site ready for winter and the rain, we have some more fencing to complete, we need to get the septic run back to the garage and first job is the main electrical panel being put in the garage.  We are also going to be putting some decking out along the trailer, keeping us up and out of the dirt/mud, and it will be covered and enclosed at one end opening up our living area!  It will be made to be moveable so when we move into the garage it will be moved round to sit in front of the garage and be our "outdoor living" area there :)

Our new home is SO cosy, housework doesn't take long leaving more time for decorating with fairy lights.   I went to the Laundromat today to hang out with some locals and catch up on all the gossip! life is good in Port Orford.

We now have had our address registered with USPS so we have our mailbox to put up and will be able to receive mail, it's something you don't think about when you buy a piece of untouched land, it doesn't actually exist! we had the address registered with the county when we applied for permits, but USPS needed to register it too! we have also put a number on the gate along with our house name :) more on that in another blog!

We got our high speed internet connected, it is FAST much faster than our internet was in the big metropolis of Seattle, we also have a land line, so I am ALL set to get back to work first thing tomorrow!

Not much else to report, our move proved to be as uneventful as we hoped it would be, when we first brought our property all I could  think about was "how were we going to move all our stuff down here" but with the slow process of everything happening over 2 years, each little thing has been dealt with separately, including the move, once we finally decided how we were doing it, actually completing it was a breeze!

And so the fun now begins, tomorrow is Monday morning, back to work for me, and the start of a new way of life for him!

Molly is definitely happy to be a beach bum, her hair is looking scraggy enough to be a surfer dude!