Our home...but not just yet.
So it’s almost the end of October and I’m in the middle of teaching Medical Immunology to our first-year medical students. Our tenants were still in the Flamingo Drive house when we arrived in our temporary quarters in Irvine over a month ago, but there was lots to be done before we could move back in. Termites are a universal and continuous presence in southern California and we’d been advised a year and a half ago that we needed to have the house tented and fumigated. But the tenants were not so eager to have it done, so we ended up waiting until they were gone. The time had come…
Our turn for the circus tent.
Then we had most of the inside painted, the living room, dining room, kitchen and family room. Then we were ready to take delivery of all our stuff that had been in storage in three different places, from Los Angeles (everything that had been moved out when I left for New York in 2006), from Costa Mesa (the stuff that got moved out when the new tenants in 2008 decided they didn’t want any of our furniture), and from New Jersey (everything that had been in our New York apartment).
Our stuff arrives from New Jersey...first of three deliveries.
The biggest load arrived from New Jersey. Then we got our stuff from the storage facility here in Costa Mesa, and the truck from LA came the following week. So everything’s now back in the house, although it will take us a while to unpack and figure out where it’s all supposed to go. And we become more acutely aware of the fact that we’re going to have to figure out how to get rid of a lot of this stuff in the foreseeable future.
Home sweet home! (At least for now...)
But for we now get to eat at our own table, to sleep in our own bed, and to sit down on our own furniture to watch our new big-screen TV. (It’s bigger than Richard McKenzie’s and Rob Milberg’s, that’s what’s important.)
Home Sweet Home!