Leaving Birmingham

Monday, Memorial Day, was a hot, overcast, muggy day in Birmingham, Alabama. Think sauna ....add a large truck waiting to be loaded.....and heavy furniture to fill it....and a set of stairs. And at least a hundred and eighty nine boxes filled with who knows what. ... perhaps with memories .... but they were heavy memories. (All of those things not in boxes were an entirely different matter.)

Up and down the stairs, arranging and rearranging, stuffing things into every free space including both of our vehicles until everything was loaded (thankfully with assistance) and we headed home. The Alabama skies did not shine on us but almost washed us off the road and Georgia welcomed us the same way.

This morning the truck was unloaded ( with more assistance) and the contents stored until Laurie decides exactly where she will live. I suppose that means at least one more move, but for now Laurie's at home and we are going to enjoy having her with us.


Thank you Jimmy for all of your hard work on one more move. Do you think you have at least one move left in you?

Laurie recently read me this quote from Aristotle with which she related or hopes to relate : "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." She's thankful for the education but ready for the fruit. She begins her career with an ENT group out of Valdosta and Tifton this Monday. May the juice of this fruit run down her elbows as if she were eating a Georgia peach fresh off the tree in the orchard!