This week has been a wild week.  We sold the farm and thought the closing was to be on Aug 18th.  My son and his family were going to drive us down to Florida, then my son could not help us drive because of his work so his wife and two grown children were to drive us but two of them were in Florida already and would have to drive up here and turn right around and drive us back down.  That is a long way to go and God Bless them, they said they would be glad to do it. My daughter in New Mexico was coming over to help us pack on the 6th.  We were packing slowly and trying to organize all we had to do in order to move on the 18th when the agent called and said the closing would probably be on the 4th.  We flew into action.  When we buy a house we do not want to wait two weeks to move in so we did not want to do that to the new owners so we had to change all the plans we had already made.  We changed the date of the Budget moving truck, they were very nice about it and we even saved a couple dollars because of the day of the week we were getting it.  They we call our son and he liked that date better because he was sure he could get that date off of work and we called our daughter-in-law and told her to just stay in Florida and get the villa ready for us to unload the truck when we got there.  My daughter in New Mexico agreed to help drive us to Florida and just changed her departure site from TN to FL and got a driver to bring her to Spencer instead of renting a car as she had planned.  We are so blessed to have children who help us so much.  I hope now for a while we will not have to impose on them any more.  And we got busy packing.  It seems every time we move we either go from a small house to a large one and have to buy more furniture or from a large house to a small one and have to get rid of a lot of furniture.  We have moved 11 times before this and each time one or the other of our children needed our extra furniture.  This time we are moving from a fully furnished two bedroom house to a fully finished two bedroom villa(condo) and didn’t know what to do.  Again our son came to our rescue.  He has a large house that he rents and had never furnished all the rooms so he is taking everything we don’t have a use for or did not sell with the house.  He will make three or four trips taking all the STUFF.  Everyone said we should have a yard sale or estate sale but living where we do we could not have more than two or three cars in the long drive at a time and that would be too big a hassle and Norman really does not like having people come here or even know this house is down here.  We have lived here 9 years and only four cars have come down our drive except family in all that time.  Even the UPS truck and FedX trucks leave our packages at the top of the drive in a box and from there you can’t see the house.  And that is just the way Norman likes it!!  I worry about how he will adjust to living in the city in a duplex on a postage stamp lot.  If he finds it too hard to adjust we will have to sell that place and get one out a bit farther where he can be alone.  We have been living there for 5 years but only for 4 months at a time, so only time will tell.  Anyways we got our car all  set, we are leasing one this time.  Another new experience for us and we had to get new insurance for it as the insurance company we have for our truck only is in TN.  So we have that all taken care of over the phone,  now it will be changing banks, voting place, primary  residence for the taxes, new email address, which will be backyard820@gmail.com, and address for many people, which will be 1449 SE Larkwood Circle, Port Saint Lucie, FL  34952 and who knows what else.  This move is far more complicated that our other moves, it seems or maybe it is just because we are older and find all this harder.  I would like to say this will be our last move but knowing us I somehow doubt it.  Yesterday I picked more grapes and made 15 jars of grape jelly.  I promised Norman that would be the last thing I need to can and he is going to hold me to it by packing up all the canning equipment.  I did pick green beans this morning and got a gallon bag packed full just from the old rows.  I never touched those in the corn bed and the potato bed both of which are producing now or from the kitchen garden which needs to be picked.  The pole beans, yard long beans are blooming so will be ready to pick in a weeks or so.  I sure hope the new owners like green beans cause I can’t can any more now and we can only eat so many.  Time to get packing.  Have a good day.