Family Mellmann

Yesterday, we quit working at almost 9 PM. Today after a leisurely breakfast we got to work unpacking and trying to get things organized. We worked all day with no real break but ended with a dinner at around 6 PM. We unpacked almost every single box except for a couple with things like decorating items and odds and ends that will require some furniture purchases.  There are still many things to arrange and rearrange as he spends time in the apartment, but we made a real effort and got things to a pretty stable place so that Patrick can go back to work tomorrow.

The movers have arrived to unload the trailer and my car.  I am just keeping an eye on the exposed open trailer and car and Patrick is inside directing traffic. He came out to grab a couple of bed parts and as he turned around to go back to the apartment he looked at me with a cheesy grin and said, “it’s happening!“.   He’s wry excited.

We arrived in Chicago today. And we got here just in time to go have some dinner. Tomorrow starts the work.

This car is loaded and ready for another run across the United States.  This time, it’s moving Patrick from Phoenix Arizona to Chicago Illinois.

I said farewell to Katherine and Joerg this morning as they loaded up the Honda Civic headed north back to Montana.

The family is together again one last time in Arizona before Patrick moves to Chicago. We enjoyed a nice sushi dinner, conducted a little family business (Jörg is returning to Montana with his old Honda Civic which Patrick has been using for the past two years), and said our farewells. Tomorrow Jörg and Katherine will return to Montana, and I get to stick around to help Patrick drive his household across the country.  At least I’m not responsible for this move.  😎🤪

This isn't a particularly stellar photograph, but it shows the blue sky and our beautiful mountain view pretty well.  This is also your last look at that view through these dirty windows.  I have finished cleaning all (well, almost all) of the windows on the inside and tomorrow a window cleaning service is coming to clean the outside windows, and the higher windows in this photo and at the front door (both of which require a ladder taller than what we have...that's my story and I'm sticking to it!). I know what you're thinking.  "You can get a window cleaner out to Absarokee in the middle of nowhere?!"  I know.  I was also surprised.  It turns out that they are going to be in Columbus tomorrow and are happy to have one more customer to do while they're in the area.   

It looks like we have seen whatever snow this winter is going to bring so Bernie our excavator is back to flatten piles, spread dirt, and finish up the exterior ground work. We are so pleased to see the rocky pile across our back yard finally disappear. With that long pile of rocky soil gone, it starts to look like an actual yard rather than a dirt bike track. We are still loving this view (taken on the county road as I was leaving...our house is the dark grey one to the right of the tan one on the right side of the picture)