Geschafft - we made it.....

what a long time is past since my last writing in here, with the most exciting and also frightening experiences. the move: the truck came 4 hours too late and the strong young helpers were already at a game and we relied on our wonderful neighbors Dave, Steve, and Al and the new owner of our little house: Tim, and they worked so hard up to the bitter end 11pm ...... i do not know how to thank them enough...

i make it short: the truck arrived, we got the first pallets with Dave's help and his loader in the truck; everything was out on the lawn, waiting to get in the big box; it started raining - i fed the strong helper with some pizza, we were glad for the break, the hot humidity was sooo high, sweat !!!!; it did not stop raining, the guys went back loading, it was poring down, cats and dogs raining on us, lightning, thunder right on top of us, it started hailing - 1 euro coin size. and it did not end, the system was just stuck over woodward, it did not move away, just circled around - for the whole time packing; everything got soaked, the plastic tarps filled up with 4 inch of rain- oder 120 liter auf 1 qm - . the truck driver told us that he had the worst move ever - 30 years ago - he adjusted that statement after our container was full. full yes, but not everything in it. the postes made it in the truck but not the shelves. a lot of them.......and, and

but this is history!!!!

we are now in gualdo, we have an internet connection- since yesterday- a good fast one, Jon found a way to connect the receiver on a piece of scaffolding, and the little box looks now over the trees towards the tower of our little hometown, where the antenna is installed. with some luck we will even have a phone through this :-).

we stayed with family before we arrived here on the 17th of july. first a trip to Jon's dad in minnesota, what a nice dad i married into! than a too short visit with LauraJean, Jon's older sister- she just have to come visit here so we have more time for each other. the last night in usa we stayed at Jeff's house, our friend who lives also in europa(england). there must be something in common to this people moving away from usa.....
the flight and arriving in frankfurt and a smiling brother picks us up from the airport. our bags to the gram filled to the limit barely fit in the car and we made it to his home. this is now our mutual home we are registered in markt erlbach as residents and after some search we found a little cargo car- 2 seats and a big space for our future business in italy- whatever that might be - . after settling the purchase i recognized the black dirt all over inside the car. there is also a label on the engine hood - we do know now what is means: it is the official sign for a chimney cleaner- we bought the work-car of the luck symbol schornsteinfeger!!!! now if that is not a good omen.

Che Emozione!

what an exciting time--- we are in the mids of packing, selling, wrapping, sorting, e-baying, garage-selling and the days have not enough hours. we have a ticket to europe, actually to frankfurt, so we can buy a car with my german insurance and points... will see how that will be solved.
i will get some pictures for this event here soon, just another box....
ok here is the pick-up that got sold in 4 hours. i can only say "craigslist", very good for cars, boats and $20 washing machines, but not for real art and high end music equipment. but we are almost without a vehicle. my little loved blue honda is going to a nice young man who wears his cap backsidefront and who let us have it for 1 more week.- after the BIG MOVE of the stuff into the 40 feet container and sending it on the way to the ship -- we will than get a rental car and drive up to minnesota visiting Jon's dad and sister. than for sure we need some relaxing time. just look at this turtle that layed her eggs right on the edge of our gravel-road, she was very concentrated with her duty and did not get upset with us watching her, that is the state of mind i would like to reach.

but ... we still try to get up at sunrise and stop working at sunset, or as long as we can see something... eating a bit and fall in bed. and that is what i do now.

S O L D ! !

how wonderful,- we found the right people for our sweet little house. a young couple who were searching for a place with enough ground to grow their organic veggies and been sheltered by big trees, close to woods and nature. they just got married and wanna start their live together connected with the environment. i am so glad my loved big trees are not a nuisance to the new owner and have to be cut down, like the one huge maple i nursed at my 1st place in usa. the buyer cut it down and moved away after 2 years. now we will have even more big trees in italy. and i am in the total packing war. boxes, labels, bubble-wrap everywhere and still no end in sight. i am soooo slow. but it looks like we will leave this place at the end of june. travel through the country say goodbye to all and huiiiiiiiii....

but before that- i still have to get rid of some loved pieces: i do not want to wrap that pretty devil again to take it with me. i have him now for 20 years or more and he got me through all the angel photography and all the too holy times. but i can separate now from him and he got really appreciated in price he sells now for $2000. of course i will sell him for much less....

close relationship

we had wonderful painting weather, the house is completely painted, new edges and window frames - now all white and it makes the house so much prettier. we just need now the right buyer, someone just like us... somebody asked if it would suitable for 2 kids. i guess that is a question of time. the family who lived here before the old lady who sold the house to us had 13 children. i guess it was ok for them, they all turned out decent people. so who knows what is suitable for people. an interesting article in the nytimes talked about a couple who vowed never be more than 15 feet apart- that is mmh - i have to check...4.57 meter... that is a close relationship.. i love to be close to my partner, but right now he is gone putting the "for sale signs" up. 3.4 miles away. i miss him.

so if anyone wanna come and have ice-tea; open-house 1-4 sat and sun.

see you then.

house for sale!

die zeit rast, where does the time go. we are sooooo busy with finishing this house in iowa. tomorrow we will get the sign out: "for sale by owner".


seems i got the slides show up!
we were just painting painting... in the morning checking if the temperature is over 10 C and if the rain does not come for at least 4 more hours. rain does wash paint off. in the morning after a night rain the brown covered green gutters appeared again.
more later....

Eckhart Tolle !!!!!

awakening to your life's purpose...

this is our new way of thinking, learning, understanding. we got the books and are reading this so wise, easy instructions. we did not know when we started this, that the whole world is already doing the same: OPRAH has Eckhart on a special show every monday and is talking about his book: a new earth. i am not a tv watcher, we do not even have one, so things like this have to be discovered - and we did......, click on his name Eckhart Tolle and this is the link to the oprah side.

we did get a realtor to look at the house and we decided to try sell it ourself. the money we put in to make it so pretty will just go to him.....
we will have a site to see pictures and the description of this place. i counted the wildlife and trees we have around here and found out we have at least 39 different birds around here. (the neighbors chicken not counted) - we will try to find someone who is a nature lover just like we are.

before & after

wir fangen an zu packen, i am not very good with that, i cannot let things go very well. i still remember when i through my skies in the big garbage container in muenchen, and they stuck out and the neighbor just broke them in half. but i was moving to iowa and iowa is FLAT...there are no mountains - that is what Bruce said and he is a native. i did not need the skier, even there was a little hill with a lift and floodlight at disco-night. i was jealous because i could not go(if i wanted). what is it with just being able to do something, even i would not really want to slope down there. what is it with things i carry with me through 3 moves and i never unwrapped it and used it? we are listening to a wise man on the computer and his thoughts about life/love and the now. i am not in the presence when i am looking at an old magazine / picture etc i am in the past - thinking about the time than, with the pain and joy whatever i connect with this *thing*. to be N O W in this single moment not in what was will be - that is a very easy smart concept to be happy. listen to Eckart Tolle what might change your life, worth the 10 minutes! i will go with this, get myself back from sad thoughts about the losses i felt here in usa and the worries about my future in italia. ich finde vielleicht auch eine deutsche version, der mann ist wirklich sehr gut.