Day One Moving and a Ermine Surprise

After a very cold and snowy weekend, we had our first full day of the packers at the house today.  They seem to be a good crew, and are going to do all of the packing before Thanksgiving and the moving into the van next Monday.  They think that they will be done by the end of Monday, so we will be living out of the RV beginning next week.  The weekend was bitter cold, but we were plenty cozy in the house.  Neil actually barbecued with a temperature of seven degrees.

We have 90 percent of what we plan to take with us in the RV or vehicles, or set aside in the garage.  When Neil was working behind the house today, he saw some unusual wildlife.  It was an ermine, peeking from behind the big cooler at the back of the house.  It was solid white and very pretty.  Neil hasn't seen one in the wild since when he was a kind in Cordova, where his oldest brother Jim ran a trap line on the Copper River Delta.

This is a Picture of What an Ermine Looks Like

Since we woke up to about four inches of snow this morning, Neil spent some time shoveling the driveway and clearing paths around the RV and vehicles.  We had a good dinner out tonight with friend/renter Dave at Zen Restaurant in downtown Juneau and then filled up one of the RV propane tanks that was emptied yesterday.  With the very cold weather, we are burning through a lot more propane than usual.

Tomorrow is another full day of packing and trying to make sure that they don't pack things we don't want packed.  It will get easier from here on out, we are certain.  We are now planning on keeping the RV here at the house until the day before our ferry on December 13.  Neil is going to look into some tire chains for the RV to make sure that we can make a safe tow to the ferry terminal--better safe than sorry!

It was a very long day (getting up at 0700 is for the birds!) but we are happy that we are "moving ahead".  Thanks for visiting,

Neil and Pamela