We're In ... Mostly

 

Almost a month later and we are mostly moved into the Overture apartment in Flower Mound Texas. Above is the front of the building and below is the view of the pool area with our apartment being on the top right.

Just about directly below us on the ground floor is the lobby and the bar area where we do happy hour at the far end ... really upscale design and artwork in the place.

In our place the high ceilings make the 1100+ square feet look bigger than it is ...

 ... but we have managed to fit a large portion of our stuff into the space and it's starting to look like home.

But before we call it "done" I guess we need to deal with the remainder of stuff in the garage here. We will try to sell the large pieces on line and then the kids will get a truck (large) and cart the rest to their place for garage sale, pick what they want, and then curbside the remaining scraps.

We haven't forgotten our old home though. The Flying Scotsman is in a storage area near here where we go out periodically to keep up the cleaning and restoration process of the machine. One of the next projects will be to supervise the replacement of the badly cracked windshield and that should happen in the next couple of weeks.

Moving

(Again?)

 

As we talked about over the summer we eventually worked out a place we would like to live for awhile and that ended up to be Flower Mound Texas, on the north shore of Lake Grapevine. We rented an apartment and a garage with the intent to get all our stuff out of the storage place it was in and see what would fit into the new 1135 square foot place and then deal with the rest.

 

On the 30th of October the movers showed up at the storage place in Addison, but not before we had moved some items ourselves over to the new digs and had a chance to sip a glass and work out all the bugs.

 



On the 30th the guys from "Dallas Best Movers" showed up (they had put the stuff in storage about three years ago) and began to load. Below is a picture of the van which, "holds a full three bedroom house" according to the moving company boss.

Unfortunately the truck is about full ...

... and there's a bunch more to go! Yikes.

As they were sealing up the truck I quickly went over to a nearby U-Haul place and rented a cargo van to get the rest of the boxes with the movers' help. Even that didn't do it as I had to jam the scraps into the overworked GMC to complete the task.

Here's Jo-Anne at our new garage with the first pile of boxes we had moved over before the truck could arrive. After they finished, you couldn't enter either the front door or the garage door as the stuff was piled high throughout ...

... even after fitting what we could into the apartment. In theory this will be the kitchen and dining area when the rubble clears.

And the blogger trying to make sense of a thousand wires; one which might be used to charge a phone.

And finally after a very long day the view from our porch to the south overlooking the pool.

More later when we get settled into our new home at the Overture in Flower Mound. But first we had to get the Flying Scotsman out of the Twin Coves RV park and over to a storage area nearby and then spend the first night, November 2nd, in the new place and give the bus a much deserved rest.