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ever more boxes
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our last meal in the Lawton kitchen, designed to empty the last pantry and refrigerator items
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headed over the mountains to LA
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Sous is unimpressed by the pile of boxes in the dining room. (She's yawning.)
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We tidied up the garden for the next tenants.
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The day before we moved, we conducted a low-effort yard sale. In other words, it's all free. Everything went except for the table top.
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the last items: a couple cheap shelving sets we'd made our peace with leaving if necessary
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following the truck on I-5
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Our movers managed to jigsaw all our stuff in the 16' truck.
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The house emptied pretty fast.
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the nastiness that hid under our TV room couch
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mid-load
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We arrived in Palm Springs well after dark and woke up to discover that our Motel 6 was in the middle of a wind farm.
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Bryan hanging out with the stuff for our cars while the movers load up our truck.
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packed kitchen
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We culled some chairs and put them out on the curb, free for the taking. We watched a guy strap one of the little IKEA chairs to the handlebars of his bike.
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West Texas was a little more...featureless.
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We ran into some badass thunderstorms.
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(2) cooking
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Our little dingo prowls around the trash pile in the yard.
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Guests, I promise this bedroom will look better when you visit.
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and pretty mountains
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Hey, we made it to the house!
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Jetta odometer after the Oakland-to-Austin drive
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and dramatic sheets of rain