Our departure is immanent; although we were not 100% certain that we were leaving on the July 19th. W. has finally been diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica and has started on a cortisone medication that has virtually eliminated his all over body pain.
A tremendous amount of strenuous packing has occurred since that last entry. Many days of hair raising moments where I wasn't sure we would make it out the door. During these last few days, before we finally turned the key to close another chapter in our lives I created piles from the house. A Sudbury pile, cottage pile, Goodwill pile, garbage pile and in the end we had to leave half of the combined piles with our neighbors. Our neighbors took us in and gave us room and board for two days.
We only needed to walk across the yard where a cool glass of wine or beer was always waiting for us. We truly felt very comfortable at their house and humbly accepted their help on those last three days of record temperatures and staggering humidity. We locked the door on our country house without regret or even shedding a tear. We drove to Sudbury with a truck load of STUFF for the cottage to await the movers. All went well with the unloading, and we spent the rest of the day purging and repacking our suitcases so we only had 20 kg per suitcase. We never did get it down to the allowed amount.
We headed to the cottage the next day. After unloading from the GMC to the boat and up to the cottage we could finally relax knowing nothing else required our last ounces of strength.
Leaving at 8 am the next morning heading back to Newmarket for the last errands we stopped for our usual Tim's coffee and felt confident about our upcoming day looking forward to spending time with the Sewards.
Our first stop was to return W's new glasses. Long story short, we got caught up there at the mall and didn't make it to the Seward's until 5:30. Better late than never.
Our farewell party was fabulous, with the entire Seward clan present. I was a little overwhelmed with everyone asking all kinds of questions, which I was very happy to answer. Lots of little ones playing in the pool, just like in our early days of living next door. We had presents and champagne and of course some tears.
Sitting here in the lounge area we feel relaxed and ready to continue the next leg of our journey.
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