Getting closer

It's a good thing our social calendar is filled up with lots of goodbye events this week. The movers arrived with our stuff in Greenville last week, so we're living a fairly spartan lifestyle at the Portland house right now. We've got our trusty air mattress (which has seen several nights in Portland, flew to Greenville for a week, and came back with us for these last few days). We've got 2 lawn chairs (which also serve as our dining and sitting chairs inside). And we've got a moving box for a makeshift table.
Fancy, huh?

This is our last full week of work. Rhonda has to work the weekend, and my last day is Monday. We'll be hitting the road sometime next week. We got some of the unpacking done Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, but have plenty to keep us busy for a while once we're settled in for good. I'm scheduled to start work in SC on 9/9.

Dad came up for a few days to help with a few odd projects and, most importantly, getting the house painted. His power roller really came in handy. Below are a few before/after pics. The only room we didn't paint was the middle bedroom (AKA "Catheren's room")- Catheren wants to help paint that one, and you'll hear no complaints from me!

The whole house was this beige color before.We livened up the living/dining room with a warmer brown.

Master bedroom.

Front bedroom (AKA 'the Mancave', because that's where the TV is going).

Even after unpacking, some of the house will look a bit empty for a while. We don't have enough furniture to fill it yet, but we want to live in it for a while before deciding on specific pieces of furniture we need.

Packing is done!

No thanks to George, who's always thought boxes make sweet playhouses. We have quite a bit of stuff to load up for the roadtrip the first week of September, but everything is ready for the movers. They're due to arrive early Tuesday morning, and the auto transport guys should be coming by sometime Monday. These boxes may not look like much, but they represent a healthy amount of labor invested over the past couple of weeks (you don't realize how much crap you have until you try to pack it all!).