Unpacking and More Unpacking

We're now officially living in a Swing State. Movers dropped our loads of stuff off last week and we spent the weekend unpacking box after box after box--as far as I can tell it was mostly dog towels, toothbrushes, and lots and lots of packing paper.

These people were professional in their use of packing paper. There was not a thing that went unprotected (well, save for the fancy sushi platter, but oh well). Seriously, I unwrapped some whack things. First off, as I was unpacking the box entitled "Master Bedroom" I came across a rock wrapped in 3 pieces of packing paper. Yes, it was precious to me (I scavenge such items from beaches of note from time to time) but I am certain that years, probably millenniums, of ocean pounding did nothing to hurt that rock. Better yet, there were 4 more just like it, each individually wrapped. Awesome!


Next up came some surprises from the kitchen box: bamboo skewers and a used piece of aluminum foil...wrapped up like they were prized Fabergé eggs. And the winner: From the bathroom box, an ace bandage wrapped perfectly in multiple pieces of wrapping paper, sandwiched neatly between multiple toothbrushes in their original packaging, also wrapped up. Unbelievable. If I had been packing, that ace bandage would have been used to wrap up the prized sushi platter. Perhaps I shall take each of these items and construct myself a Halloween costume (of course, if it rains, my packing paper shell will be in a heap). The good news is that we found a user for all of these packing goods and so we won't be quite so hard on our local landfill or recycler (and yes, Williamsburg actually has curbside recycling, for free!!! We're still working on the clean green).

In between unpacking and making 300 trips up and down the stairs, we did manage a trip to the local Saturday morning Farmer's Market, which exceeded expectations: farm fresh meat, delicious oyster mushrooms, eggplants, arugula (still not sure it beats Nash's, but close!), herbs, and pies (we had to pass on the pies on account of our austerity plan, but there will be other occasions...). We also took a spin through the 'hood and liked what we saw, including some beautiful fall foliage. Things are looking good.