It is Moving Week

It has finally arrived. This is the week that Mom and Dad move to the
"lake house".

That is my name for it, even though Linda points out you can not even
see the lake. Here is the logistics plan for the week. Dad is pulling
a trailer full of stuff over to the new house on Tuesday. On
Wednesday at 5AM Linda and Mark and I will be arriving at the new
house to pick up mom and dad and drive to Chico to collect the moving
van. Then we all go to Cirby Creek to load the van with the help of
several helpers that dad has hired. Load the truck, eat lunch on
paper plates and then head back to the lake. Uncle Earl has said he
can come to the lake house with some helpers to help unload. That
should use up all of Wednesday. On Thursday I will still be at the
house with dad to keep making a home out of things and then I have to
work Friday before returning Friday afternoon. It should be a week.

Mark and I went up to the lake last week and helped dad on details.
Vacuuming, dusting, digging a ditch to lay a drain pipe, setting up
book shelves. It was a good day of work. That day, the water and
sewer was hooked up and the electrical needed to be inspected before
the final and the driveway in front of the garage needed to be
poured. Hard to seem it is ready to move into but dad is pushing his
contractors and pushing on with the move.

Mom is struggling. Last week when Mark and I were cleaning she
reminded me how pleased she was that all three of us boys were at her
place for a day this summer. She was not quite certain what the
occasion was and she did not remember that Earl and Nellie were there
but she remembers we were there. That was sort of cool. During the
move and the packing she is quite confused. She connects our pictures
on her refrigerator with her reality that we are actually there at
the house. She talks to us, and brings food to our pictures to feed
us and she gets upset when dad is not supportive of her care for her
sons. Yes, it weirds me out and Dad has been having a tough time with
it also.

I hope you guys are calling dad from time to time, or he is calling
you. He needs every smile over the phone he can get. I will put up
another update after the moving is over.