We have survived !!!! We moved the entire contents of a dorm room on Friday and an apartment on Saturday back home. My house now looks like a bomb went off inside of it. Megan's stuff (minus the dead cat) is now in the living room and foyer and garage and Emily's stuff is on the stairs, in her bedroom and in a storage unit on the west side of Ames. (We really have become the Joe's of the family, at least for awhile). It will probably remain like this until Megan moves back to Cedar Falls on the 16th of May into her apartment. Emily is dutifully rewashing all her dishes in my dishwasher before she bequeaths them to Megan for her apartment. Emily has no idea when she'll be moving to DesMoines. It depends on when her roommate takes possession of a house she (with her dad's help) is going to purchase and then rent out to Emily and 2 other girls. She starts her classes on May 29th, so may be commuting to DesMoines each day until the house is ready to move into. Jim never knew how talented he was- he is mover, truck driver, computer assembler, desk taker aparter (!), drape taker downer, cable-TV rerouter, etc., etc. One of Megan's roommates asked her earlier if her dad knew how to use any tools and Megan replied, "My dad can fix anything!". Kind of like the Burger King commercials of years ago, "My dad is 10 1/2 feet tall!" I hope you had a good day yesterday, Shannon, at graduation. Somehow we escaped the rain. Please send us your new address. Until next time...... chrisandjim
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I am impressed, Jim and Chris! We're moving on August 1st....want to come to Sioux Falls....or Madison?! :)
Wow! I'm tired just reading all about your last 2 days! I told Joe about how much moving you all were doing and he said, "Better them, then us!" :)
My sister said they had a nice visit with you at graduation---she thought it was pretty fun that you guys got to sit by each other. We would have liked to have seen both Emily and Shannon graduate that day. Instead, I helped my Mom in Fort Dodge do some outside work, and Joe moved cows/calves to the pasture across the river...making multiple trips. It didn't go exactly smooth...he broke 2 pieces of wood (like a handle of a hoe or something)over a cow's head, and the cow still jumped over the fence twice and escaped. He finally got that same stupid cow in the trailer today and took her across the river to be with the rest...the cow's calf was down with the other cows/calves and the 'stupid' cow was bawling and walking all over because she couldn't find her calf. Duh! If she hadn't jumped over the fence, and got in the trailer like she was supposed to do, she wouldn't be missing her calf!
On a good note, Forest hasn't run away again, and is still behaving and staying with his mother.
Wow!! That Jim is half a man and half amazing!!Although I think he has too much class to be called a truck driver. Let's refer to him as a Transportation Specialist.If you do have a picture of him in cowboy boots and a chain drive billfold I would love to see it. Mr Bill
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