About 6:30am I realized Neil hadn’t gotten out of bed yet. I went in to check on him and he said he felt sick. He did feel warm and said his stomach was upset. He looked pale also. So I had him stay home from school. I called Grandma Sharon and she was able to come up.
I had planned on driving Neil to school, but this worked out nicely as I was able to get more things done before I left the house for the day. I stopped to make a bank deposit and then went through the car wash. The inside of my car was just getting nasty. It’s so hard to clean out the inside during the winter. I drove through the main post office to drop off a birthday card and then began my drive towards Stoughton. I stopped at Mom & Dad’s bank in McFarland to put some documents back in the safe deposit box. I got to Stoughton about 11am.
Dave and Debbie were not back yet from getting the moving truck. As it turns out, they had reserved the smallest sized truck. There was a mixed and the next larger size truck was substituted along with a 10% discount and some free blankets. They returned to the house about 11:30am. I made the suggestion that before we got too involved in packing things, maybe we should go over to visit Mom.
Mom was in a fairly good mood and behavior, which was nice for Dave and Debbie. Her agitation is nicely controlled with Lorazepam. She still uses nonsense words mixed into her sentences, but the calmness is a welcome change! We visited for about an hour and then stopped at the Family Diner for a bite to eat.
Dave had a proposal he needed to finish up by 5pm, so he worked on that while Debbie and I went through things. They had brought up from the basement the boxes that had been packed previously. So we decided to go through quilts. We went through the whole house and gathered all the quilts – big and small – and put them in a pile. We divided things up three ways, leaving some things for Steve and Danita. I also had Debbie choose which set of silverware she wanted to take. I took Grandma Schucknecht’s. Debbie decided on Mom’s set which leaves Grandma Ewald’s set for Steve and Danita. We ran across Mom’s wedding dress which I brought home. Also a silver serving tray that was a wedding gift from all the Quisling Clinic doctors Mom and Dad used to work with. Mom kept the card with the platter.
After 5pm, Dave helped with the loading of the truck. I guess the bigger truck probably works out ok as they didn’t have to stack anything. About 7:00pm we headed down to the Mainstreet Pour House. As incredible as it sounds, this place has the absolute best martinis I’ve ever tasted! Good food, quaint décor, just a nice place to hang out. We stayed until about 8:30, then it was time to go. I drove Dave and Debbie back to the house and headed home myself.
Debbie said the next time Dave goes out of country for work again (perhaps March 19) she would fly in so the two of us can get some stuff done in the house so we can get it on the market. I think the next thing we need to concentrate on is gathering all the quilting material scraps, tools, machines, etc. and calling Mom’s friend Louise over for advice as to what we should do with all that stuff! There are boxes of material squirreled away in every corner of the house!
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