My sister has a storage unit, and she's letting me keep stuff there until I'm more or less permanently in Germany. It's mostly books, so things that I'd, like, take in an extra suitcase when I come back. Over multiple trips.
So I took a couple boxes from the garage here so I could get the rolling cart I have in storage, which I'm going to use for pantry stuff, which is what I used it for in the past anyway. Then I hung out at her house a while. Mom was there, so we got to talk a bit - catch up, that sort of thing.
My sister is looking into moving in 6-8 months. They need more house (they do; it's a split level), and their basement has flooded twice now. For different reasons each time, so the second one wasn't prevented by the repairs for the first one. They got 6 inches of rain in an hour, and the stairwell to the basement door filled about 3 feet deep, and then it breached the door, of course. So they're trying to figure out a solution to that before they sell, and doing small fix-ups (the automatic light on the gas stove doesn't work; the fridge gasket needs replacing) so they can sell.
Mom is still living in Charles Town, not doing a whole lot except being retired, though she's looking into retirement communities where she doesn't have to do yard work. I mean, mood. But she's also talking about selling her house and moving into an in-law suite when my sister moves, if the house she gets has one. It would take pressure off my sister and her husband, with the telecommuting and tele-school and all that. But that's still in the future, so who knows. Not I.
So I took a couple boxes from the garage here so I could get the rolling cart I have in storage, which I'm going to use for pantry stuff, which is what I used it for in the past anyway. Then I hung out at her house a while. Mom was there, so we got to talk a bit - catch up, that sort of thing.
My sister is looking into moving in 6-8 months. They need more house (they do; it's a split level), and their basement has flooded twice now. For different reasons each time, so the second one wasn't prevented by the repairs for the first one. They got 6 inches of rain in an hour, and the stairwell to the basement door filled about 3 feet deep, and then it breached the door, of course. So they're trying to figure out a solution to that before they sell, and doing small fix-ups (the automatic light on the gas stove doesn't work; the fridge gasket needs replacing) so they can sell.
Mom is still living in Charles Town, not doing a whole lot except being retired, though she's looking into retirement communities where she doesn't have to do yard work. I mean, mood. But she's also talking about selling her house and moving into an in-law suite when my sister moves, if the house she gets has one. It would take pressure off my sister and her husband, with the telecommuting and tele-school and all that. But that's still in the future, so who knows. Not I.