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A Week in Photos: 2026, Part 9

March 4, 2026

Monday, February 23: The previous owners of our house were still working on getting their animals moved out, so I got to say good morning to the turkey on our way up to the house. Had some running around to do to get a form notarized for the county for the new septic system; the notary our real estate guy booked couldn’t do it as while he’s a customer of that bank, we are not and their policy prohibited him from doing his thing for us, so we ended up going to our bank where we noticed some possible issues with the information our real estate guy had filled in but did manage to get it notarized, then took it to the county where they wouldn’t accept it because some of the information we’d had to write in was closer than one inch from the edge of the paper (despite there being no indication on the form that was a requirement), so Mr. K had to fill out a cover sheet and pay more money to get the thing filed. After all that we returned to the house and saw the previous owners loading birds into a trailer hooked up to a Uhaul. After they drove away, we saw our first night sky from the new house. I was happy to see we do get see some hints of the sunset at this time of year.

Sunset colors with pine trees in the foreground

Tuesday, February 24: Still not sleeping in the new house, what with the heat not working yet but we did spend enough time there that I did my first loads of laundry. Because I am not as fancy as my new house, I used the long railing in the vaulted entry to hang things to dry. Eventually I’ll get my drying racks moved over, and the new laundry area is an actual room where the racks will fit just fine and I won’t have to use the railings, though I probably will for bigger things like blankets and such.

Black wrought iron railing along a walkway on the second floor of a vaulted entry way. Railing has t shirts draped over the top rail.

Wednesday, February 25: Enjoyed the sunset from Kathy’s house after a day of more poking around at the new house.

Sunset with a wooden railing and a house in the foreground and city lights in the distance.

Thursday, February 26: Left Mr. Karen and drove back to Idaho to be in place for the rescheduled moving pod pickup the next day. Took Mr. K’s vehicle as it can hold more boxes. Forgot to move my prescription sunglasses from my car, so had to wear the rollup ones we keep around for such circumstances. Very stylish for sure. I got to the mountain just at twilight to take a look at the pod and see how much snow and ice I’d have to try and remove before the rescheduled pickup the next afternoon.

Me, a sixtysomething white woman with long pale blue hair wearing glasses with dark rollup sunshades slipped behind the glasses..

Friday, February 27: Due to the moving pod pickup getting moved from afternoon to morning, I got up way too early to go get a couple bags of ice melt before heading up the mountain to shovel and chip ice out from around the pod for a couple hours before I got the call from the driver. I gave him instructions on how to best get up to the pod location and returned to my snow and ice removal activities until he arrived an hour and a half or so later. He was skeptical about being able to navigate the pod lifting machine in the less than ideal conditions, despite having introduced himself as their most experienced driver, but gave it a go and did eventually manage to get the pod loaded on the truck. The relief I felt when that truck heading down the road was immense.

Red metal shovel leaning against a white moving pod sitting in a snowy drieway. A ski run can be seen in the distance.

Saturday, February 28: Went down to the city to spend time with friends since I was so close. On my drive back to my hotel up north, I stopped for what turned out to be a disappointing dinner and then searched for a dessert place to cheer myself up and discovered there’s a frozen yogurt shop in a strip mall I’ve driven past so many times. It was just the thing I needed.

Cup of frozen yogurt with various toppings and a red violet plastic spoon.

Sunday, March 1: Checked out of the hotel and went to the storage studio to load the car with as much as I could fit before driving back west. I made it to Seattle in time to meet Mr. Karen near the airport, where he was staying the night before leaving on a trip that he’d planned months and months before we knew when we’d be moving. We had dinner in a casino near the hotel and hung out for a bit before I headed up to the new house, where Mr. K had slept the previous two nights after we got our propane tank filled.

Looking into the open back hatch of a crossover filled to capacity with boxes and small pieces of luggage and random bits and bobs.

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