This moving business is hard work!

The gaggle of pukekos in the cow paddock paddock next door took fright and scurried away in the cool of the early morning when I appeared in their line of vision.  It must have been a family group as I counted half a dozen or so, as they looked for tasty grubs in the pasture.  These birds startle easily and tend to run away before I have the camera ready, flashing their white tail feathers as they go.

Sunday morning always means a cooked breakfast in our household, and we rustled up enough for our hosts as well.  Bacon and eggs plus some tasty breakfast sausages, yum, that should set us up for the day.  Then Geoff helped Robin manhandle our heavy chest freezer onto the furniture trailer, and we set off to Levin.  Once there, Derek was called on to help unload the freezer, and we breathed a sigh of relief when it fitted neatly into the allocated place in the garage.  Robin and Derek drove backwards and forwards to the lock-up to collect a whole swag of boxes and plastic storage crates, then unloaded them, dropping them off in the appropriate room if they were so labelled.  The boxes are everywhere, stacked up in the garage, in the spare room, kitchen and lounge.  Thanks for lending a hand, boys, you’ve been a great help.

I’ve been emptying crates and filling the kitchen cupboards, and then the pair of us started arranging furniture.   The glass table top for the dining table was wrapped up in large sheets of bubble wrap for safety, but the sticky tape holding it in place had got all over the glass.  It took a fair amount of elbow grease to remove the sticky residue, I can tell you!

We pushed and pulled the couches and lazy-boy chairs this way and that, while we considered which was the best arrangement.  Hopefully it looks fine now, but we can always change things around later on if we change our minds again, can’t we?  That's enough for today, we decided, and headed back to Otaki and our caravan.

 

Our hosts had returned the favour of our cooked breakfast and provided us with a tasty home cooked meal, and dessert too.  They had guessed that we would be tired after another  day of moving boxes around.  How right they were – Robin fell asleep in front of the telly, and was tucked up in bed just after 8.00pm.  It’s a fact – this moving business really is hard work!