We decided to sell our house and move to Oregon, but the real estate market wasn't good at the time. We wouldn't accept any offers that we got, so we took it off the market. Just before my surgery the Smeads from church referred some people who had come to look at their home to us. I gave them a figure of $950,000 to buy our house. They accepted the offer while I was in the hospital during my chemo scare. The stipulation was that we had to be out of the house in three weeks. Kaye couldn't see how she could get everything ready to move since I was so weak, but I told her we would accept the offer and we did.
Su Rudy came and helped Kaye pack. Cindy and Rob and family came down and helped us pack. Somehow we got everything packed. In May, we had come up to Lisa's wedding in Oregon and finalized the sale of a ranch we had been trying to buy for two years by Lost Creek Lake.
I rented 4 big 24 foot U-Haul trucks. The first weekend we loaded two of the trucks and Rob and Greg drove them to Medford. Kaye and I drove our cars up. We had to put everything in 4 big storage units in Medford because the state policeman and his wife who had been renting our house and were supposed to be moved out by June 16th lost their grandson in a swimming pool accident and we decided to give them another month or two to move. The next weekend we brought the other two trucks up to Medford. I drove one of the big trucks and Greg drove the other truck. We unloaded the other trucks into the storage units. Kaye and I made several trips back and forth to bring our other vehicles up from California.
We finally put the camper on our big Chevy truck and camped at Stewart Park by the ranch until we could move into our house. Before we moved into the home, our grandsons helped us move our stuff out of the storage up to the ranch. It took a lot of trips. We left a lot of our stuff in storage because we didn't have room for it at our house.
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