Packing packing packing!

Ok, packing update (and some other stuff too)!!

But first...

Heading to a friend's family farmhouse hear Brenham for Memorial Day weekend for some much-needed relaxing and seeing some friends before I leave.

Progress of Big Things:
  1. Saving money: a bit ahead, go me!
  2a. Find field gear in the garage: DONE. After the Great Rearrangement, I have found everything I need.
  2b. Buy field gear: DONE.
    - New acquisitions: cheap waterproof digital watch, Rite-In-The-Rain notebooks, 2nd pair of field pants, rain pants, more cool long-sleeved shirts (x3), pocket knife, Apple Watch protective case and screen-protector.
    - Non-field stuff: ordered new glasses, arriving in a week or so.
  3. Wrap up work stuff: in-progress.
    - Teaching a lot, in Fort Worth this week, Baton Rouge next week.
    - Finished up a BIG curriculum project, now working on all the updates I can get done.
  4. Housing: in-progress.
    - Have come to a lease agreement, just need to sign and email the paperwork!
  5. Travel logistics: started.
    - Travel route has changed. Instead of going through Little Rock, Louisville, Cleveland, and Erie, I'm gonna go east first, through Baton Rouge, and then turn north on I-81 and take it all the way northeast to Buffalo, through the Appalachians. Will book hotels this week.
  6. Box up life: in-progress.
    - The Great Rearrangement, two weekends ago (pictures below): got all the furniture moved to the back of the garage, boxes to the front, got things roughly sorted into DefinitelyWon'tNeed and MightNeed.
    - The Great Re-packing, last weekend (pictures below): got all the DefinitelyGoing field gear boxed up, have 90% of the DefinitelyGoing non-field stuff and MightBeGoingIfThere'sRoom stuff boxed up, just need to repack some of the leftover DefinitelyWon'tNeed stuff so that it takes up fewer boxes.

(Click on the pictures to get the full-sized view)

May 6: First Cursory Attempt to Find Things

Doesn't feel like I've made much of a dent...

Outta my way, kitchen stuff!!!

The Great Pen Culling of 2018

The “going later” pile. School/Office supplies and winter stuff so far.

The field gear pile (mostly equipment I’ve bought over the last month, haven’t found any of my old stuff yet). Accomplishment of the day: finding the orange backpack!

May 12: The Great Rearrangement

Boxes out, furniture in

Bed will be better stored flat. Also, we kept getting our hair caught in the Christmas Tree bits and smacked in the face with the StopTheCarHere tennis ball. >__<

We made very efficient use of the space!

Furniture and the not-going boxes.

This is the pile I have to go through. There’s less stuff here than it looks, most of those boxes are half-empty.

Very important piece of field equipment has been found! Found all the rest of the field equipment too.

May 19-20: The Great Repacking

(More photos of the actual packing to come. Right now, just cute kitties.)

I told her she couldn't be IN the bags of crochet projects and tied them shut. So she is now pouting ON TOP OF the bags.

Kitty wonderland!

I nearly stepped on her about 12 times. She and Cricket were chasing each other all over the room for most of the day.