March

The last few years, March has been a big Change month for me.  The Changes have been significant ones in my life. 

In 2015, T decided to buy his mother's house, which led to a year long renovation process.

In 2016, I started the whole process of packing up and starting to move items in to town every weekend.

Now, in 2017, I've been doing the final purging of unwanted items from the farmhouse and, this last weekend, power cleaned it to get ready for sale.

I had set aside the first three weekends to clean. But my dear, wonderful friend Donna offered to help.  We power cleaned Saturday and did six rooms...everything but the kitchen.

I took Blaine to work at 11:30 on Sunday then headed to the farm.  I cleaned from 12 until 630pm.  As I had the music playing, windows  open, I was very nostalgic.  T lived there since 1968; I moved there in1989. A lot of memories in that old house. 

The final walk through each room, standing on the deck and hearing the country sounds and seeing the view for the last time was difficult. But driving away was worse.  I wept.  The emotions, the finality ...hit me hard. 

I loved living in the country.

But that chapter is coming to a close.

March....a month of change.

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Rob said…
There's always change in our lives, right Sherry? Whether it be in March or at any other time of the year. I find that as one gets older, change gets harder to accept, let alone cope with. Be that as it may, life is nothing but continous change - be it personal, local, national, international, financial, health wise, relationship wise, you name it. We really can't avoid it, can we?
March 7, 2017 at 3:41 PM
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