Container Day

The run up to the container coming was a bit stressfull.
We had no idea how everything was going to happen, and what, if any preperations we should make. Should we file and sort everything in the house? should we put things in boxes or neat piles etc.

As it turns out, when a packing company says "we take care of everything" they actually mean it, lol.  The guys from Allied International (they bought over Pickfords) arrived promptly at 9am Monday, with a truck full of paking materials, introduced themselves, had a walk round with me and got started.

End of day one they left one of the couches un-wrapped, and the beds.

Day two was similar, arrived on time, worked all day.
Here's a word of warning though if you have pets: I had been keeping Hemi out the way for the two days, but towards the end of day two we thought he would be used to the guys. Unfortunately he snapped at one of the guys when he tried to pat him and gave him a nip. He obviously thought they guy was trying to put him in a box.
So, no matter how friendly you think your dog is, just keep him out the way for the entire time. This incident was reported to their head office, but hopefully it will go no further.

Day three Container Day!

 This is the 40 foot container, which is the biggest you will get for shipping. It's a little big for our needs, but we wouldn't get everything in the 20 footer.

Hemi was supervising operations:

The rain stayed off for the whole time the container got filled! yes, SHOCKER!, lol

Within 2 hours they were shoring it up and putting the security seal on it.

And then it was off, on it's 5 week voyage accross the atlantic. I will ad the vessel details later so you can track it, if you're sad like me, lol.

So that left us with this, and a very confused doggy:

We still have 5 weeks before we head over, so we went to Ailsa's folks to scrounge some temporary furniture. Full details of Camp Scott coming soon!