My WORK is moving too!

As if moving house is not busy enough, now my work is moving!  I no longer work for Nanaimo Telephone Visiting Society - we have changed our name to Nanaimo Seniors Visiting Society.  And we will be moving to the same building as United Way (and several other non-profits) at the end of October.  We will be saving money, and having the plus of being with other similar agencies.  Having United Way just down the hall will be great for increased visibility!

With me being away for two weeks for moving house, we don't have a lot of time to get ready for our move.  Today we started going thru boxes and deciding what goes to Value Village, what is garbage, what is paper recycling/shredding - and what we want to keep.  I know that we will need to have a volunteer or practicum student help us with re-sorting and organizing all the papers into useable resources.  We did junk old day-books, hundreds of thank-you letters going back to the early 80's, etc.  But I kept a variety of really interesting in/out letters.  Some of the most interesting were letters to and from government officials and politicians - including Premier van der Zalm! We even have a personal letter from the Premier!

We do need to find a place to store some of the things which we won't need til Christmas, etc - then I hope we can be finished with a huge lot of seasonal decorations.  We use the Nanaimo Ecumenical Centre every year, and therefore take advantage of their decorations.  We just won't have the space to store all this stuff.  And we did not use it this past Christmas.

At the top is our current logo - NTVS standing for Nanaimo Telephone Visiting Society.  We don't know what our new logo will be - for NSVS - but hope to know soon as the local web company who is working on our new website is also working on our new logo.

MOVING next weekend!

Moving day is getting VERY close now = we take possession of the new house at 9am NEXT Saturday!  We have a lot packed, with still a fair bit to do.  I am so very glad now that we arranged it so that we can get into the new place a week before we have to be out of our current place.  We are still not certain how we are going to convert to city folks - 8 years here have truly countrified us. 

We hve been trying to sell our motorhome but so far no luck - one couple has come to look at it 3 times - last time yesterday after it was completely emptied and cleaned out, and they emailed this morning saying it is not what they want after all.  And our stove is not sold yet - one lady enquired, but she ended up buying a new stove on the weekend.  I'd love to keep the stove - but there is gas at the new place.  If we don't sell it by next week I guess we are taking it with us and storing it for a bit - ugh - we really don't have the space there to be storing appliances.  I wish there was a place to take appliances to sell on consignment.  Maybe I will check into auctions - I know there is an auction on Shenton Rd not far from the new house - and maybe have an electrician see if we can put in the right wiring for the electric stove so we can get rid of the gas stove...

I just realized that I've not yet put in a photo of the new house - so:
This photo shows where the two major renovations are going to be to start - the single attached garage will be renovated immediately to be Heather's new bedroom, and the front porch/overhang will be renovated to be a large front foyer, with the den opening off of it.  This will add about 350sq ft to the house, and make it much more useable for us.  I have to do a fair bit of landscaping next spring, as there is nothing but a few trees/shrubs now.  I NEED at least one cedar tree - kind of hard to have a website etc called 'CedarHill' with no Cedar trees!

We have a great Helper, Sofia, from Mexico with us now.  She is heading back to Ontario on Friday.  I think we will be having another Helper arrive in the next week - great to get more help with the move etc.  I've also enquired with Brenda, the SD Homestay Coordinator about students for 2nd Semester - we will definitely be finished major renovations by that time - especially the master bathroom.

The move will be a LOT of work, but I am looking forward to organizing and transforming the inside to look more like our home.