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Related: About this forumMoving ain't for sissies. (Aging neither.) But we got re-situated at last. We are in a good place.
Subtitle — Around the New Farm.
Thanks each and every one of you for your prayers, your good thoughts, your positive vibes and however else you fervently affected our 200 mile moving journey. It all helped!
Our new home. Shadow approves.
A family of killdeer lives here in the front yard!
This is how KC made the entire trip.
Here, now, he finds comfort in slipping back inside, when he's not lying on our bed.
Shadow was a champ the whole trip. Once we settled in she was plain poopered out.
Laurie set up her recliner in a good spot.
AND she set up a temporary but useful computing station.

montanacowboy
(6,535 posts)Looks like you have some acreage also, hard to find places like that. Good to see everyone made the trip safely!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Thank You montanacowboy! This is the nicest house I've ever lived in. Wrap around porches front and back. Nine acres, plenty of space for Laurie's two horses and Shadow has her own 1/4 acre fenced yard.
montanacowboy
(6,535 posts)sounds like heaven!
Thanks for the speed bump info
leftieNanner
(15,996 posts)We moved 2.5 years ago, and it wrecked me for a while! Moving at 70 ain't for sissies. We had a 9 hour drive to our new house. Snoopy was a champ! We're delighted to be here now.
Snoopy says hi to Shadow.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)I'll pass on Snoopy's Hi to Shadow. Would you happen to have a photo of him (her?).
leftieNanner
(15,996 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)I just sent you a DU mail message with regard to your great Snoopy photo.
Thanks,
George
SheltieLover
(70,786 posts)So glad the hardest part is over. Ty for the update.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)SheltieLover
(70,786 posts)I'm glad Shadow approves & I hope & trust KC wll adjust.
For dogs, it's all about being with their pack. For cats, it's much more about their territory.
Enjoy your lovely new hone!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Polly Hennessey
(7,930 posts)KC, like all cats, must contemplate this change, gradually.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)rsdsharp
(11,006 posts)I don’t envy you the move. When we bought this house 22 years ago, I told my wife to settle in because I was only leaving screaming and shouting, or in a box.
So far, so good.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Laurie and I were at the old farm for 23 years. Planned for it to be our last home. The upkeep did us in. She found this new farm and so far, so good. Thanks!
brer cat
(27,015 posts)to see you settling in. Shadow seems to feel right at home!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Shadow's getting there. The former farm was all she had known for her eight years. Yet she is proving remarkably adaptable. Every time we go to move another load into the new house she comes with us, picks up her blue Jolly Ball and carries it around in her strong jaws.
usonian
(18,766 posts)And it looks so maintainable!!
This is not about me, but you're an inspiration. I just finished my 100 feet from the home "defensible space" weed whacking and deadwood removal, and at 76, I'm pooped. It's crazy steep near the home. I can see you cruising on a riding mower. Many happy, happy, happy years at the new place.
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
’tis the gift to come down where you ought to be
And when we find ourselves in the place just right
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained
To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed
To turn, turn will be our delight
‘Till by turning, turning we come round right.
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
’tis the gift to come down where you ought to be
And when we find ourselves in the place just right
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Just Laurie and me, and pets they make four
We're happy with my blue iMac
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Saint Andrews Episcopal Church, Seattle
dchill
(42,660 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)BigmanPigman
(53,282 posts)It is exhausting. My parents did it when they were 83 and I know I could not get that much energy if I had 10 cups off coffee a day. I think it is emotionally and physically draining.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Yet it needed to be done. No choice in the matter. Thanks.
slightlv
(5,953 posts)I salute you in getting this accomplished with you guys still in one piece! We just did an in-city move about 5 years ago, and it nearly killed the both of us! (LOL) I have great respect for what you did. I hope the house and land and great ambiance of the home gives me many, many years of peace and joy.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)democrank
(11,601 posts)My best to you and your family.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)LoisB
(10,972 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)The front porch pictured wraps around at left and continues down the other side. There's a separate porch on the backside.
2naSalit
(97,216 posts)I didn't realize you were moving. I just relocated almost 3,000 miles earlier this month.
It's hard to move while ageing. Hope I never have to do that again! Still trying to settle in, it takes a while. I came down to near sea level after being up around 7 - 5,000ft for 20 years, it's just hitting me now, naps help a lot.
Congrats on a successful move!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)I hope your near sea level life works out well as can be.
Thank You Kindly!
Walleye
(41,287 posts)I have a cat carrier kind of like the one KC is in. It works really well. Best of luck and way to go!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)nicer than the one we had but couldn't find, which was just as well, better even!
KC did really really well for a first-time traveler who couldn't see where he was going nor why in the world he had to go there, wherever the heck it was.
highplainsdem
(57,105 posts)and you and Laurie and Shadow and KC seem to be doing very well settling in. (Recliner and computer first, check.)
All those windows should make for cooling breezes indoors, too - and the scent of any flowers you have blooming - and with that porch you'll be able to enjoy having some of the windows open even when it's raining gently, which is a lovely plus.
Scrivener7
(56,212 posts)After recliner and computer, make the bed and order takeout. Everything else can wait till after a night's sleep and a couple of Advil!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Thank You!
Scrivener7
(56,212 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)samnsara
(18,563 posts)..we always said we need to get out before we hit 80..and im 4 years older than he is. I love our home..its in the mountains with our own private forest ( lots of wild life!!) but its on a steep hill that needs to be plowed every winter..hubby is showing lot of signs of mental decline and Im not about to crawl on the tractor and plow. We are 10 miles from town and the closest neighbors are either un approachable or old like us...and our family is spread all around the US.
So I read your story and think that I need to get out of this two story house before long. I would LOVE a setting like you just moved into..I dont want neighbors and i want lots of land.
Thank you for getting this fire under me lit again!
Katinfl
(398 posts)It sure won’t get any easier if you wait. Sounds like you have a lot to take care of right now. We did an interstate move 6 months ago from a 1700 sq.ft.home to a 1100 sq.ft.apartment. We are both 78 and we love it here. The move was hard but we are glad we did it when we did. We are in a 55+ new complex, amenities galore, pets welcome. Best part is if anything goes wrong, we call maintenance. Point it, you and your spouse have to decide when and where to move and then just do it if that is what you decide. The burden of maintaining your current place will just get harder and harder. That’s the reality. Good luck with your decision.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Passing it on was a wonderful thing to do.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)At any rate I agree wholeheartedly with Katinfl's advice above.
I have sent you a DU mail message with more information about our moving experience. If I have re-kindled your inner fire so much the better.
Thank You,
George
viva la
(4,148 posts)Cats choose the oddest beds!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)viva la
(4,148 posts)and slept on top of the books, which were all of different heights. It couldn't be comfy... but I guess it was to a cat! They're so bendable.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Mondays are for our puppy dog Shadow. (Now postponed until tomorrow due to yesterday's post which has run over into today.)
Wednesdays are for KC. Day after tomorrow I'll post a bunch of him adjusting to his new digs.
Thank You for your kitty cat insights!
Diamond_Dog
(37,517 posts)Your new home is absolutely beautiful! And plenty of room for the animals too!
I can’t imagine picking up and moving at this stage of the game, myself …. Like someone said above, it is emotionally and physically exhausting. Looks like you both handled it extremely well! Best of luck getting everything settled! I’m glad your computer is up and running! TY for sharing all the great photos! Looks like KC and Shadow are already good with everything.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)YW 4 photos! TY!
applegrove
(126,577 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Staph
(6,418 posts)I covet your porches. You need to get a porch swing - gently rocking on a porch swing in the evening breeze is a little touch of heaven on earth!
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Biophilic
(5,832 posts)What a super looking house for the 4 of you. Yeah, KC will adjust...eventually, says anyone having lived with a cat. I love the self portrait at your desk. You look great. Congratulations on the successful move to all 4 of you.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)'Twas a team effort, getting here.
My wife Laurie, our daughter Terry, and her best friend/real estate agent all agreed they liked this property at first visit. Subsequently, they all three, were here first in line for the initial open house showing. Laurie offered the owners their asking price and it was accepted the next day.
re: self-portrait — as Laurie focused the camera, I promised her my best
shit-eatin' grin. Guess it came out that way.
Biophilic
(5,832 posts)George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Americanme
(239 posts)I've been in our big old house since 1992, I know in 15 or 20 years I will be unable or unwilling to take care of it, but I dread the thought of moving.
George McGovern
(7,959 posts)Any time the thought of having to leave one day cropped up we ignored it. Hoped to stay there the rest of our lives. As we got older, we are now 73, the farm work got harder and harder and reality rose up. We had to face the dread.
We are glad we did. I hope when the time does come that you can deal with it.