Moving Oma!

Whew! That was a job and a half. I just got back from helping to move my Grandma into her new place. Actually, it has been about a month and a half long affair. My grandparents have lived on a farm east of Edmonton for the last 30 years. When my grandpa passed away last fall, it was decided that my grandma had to leave the farm and move into the city. She doesn't drive at all so you can see the diffficulty with living in the middle of nowhere. A farm also requires quite a bit of work and upkeep and it's a little too much for the family to drive out every week or two to cut the lawn, etc. I mean, it takes a good hour just to get there! So reluctantly my Granny gave up the farm but decided not to find a new place to live right away. Unfortunately this doubled the moving workload but it's the way she wanted it. So she rented a storage locker and we moved everything in there at the end of March. A few weeks later she bought a condo in one of those 50+ buildings. The turn over was really quick, she got possession already a couple weeks ago. So after getting a new washer and dryer moved in, a fancy new paintjob and a bit of cleaning done, we can move her in!

Now the problem comes. Moving all the contents of a large farmhouse into a 1 bedroom + den apartment style condo. Well let me first state that I'm very happy to not be unpacking everything. My grandma doesn't like to get rid of anything. She is the kind of person who will keep the receipt of anything she buys, put a date on it and store it in a box or a drawer. We moved 3 dressers, 3 tables, 13 chairs + 3 stools and a bazillion boxes including one box completely dedicated to German travel books (my Granny is German), to name a few things into her new condo. Well I think she will discover really quickly (if she hasn't already) that everything will not fit into her new place and she'll be selling it at a garage sale soon. The only thing discouraging about this is that I'll probably be called upon in a few weeks to come and help move half the stuff that I moved today back out so she can sell it.