Hello from North East North Carolina! I’m finally moved, still have a veritable mountain of boxes to unpack but we’re currently (slowly) having a new HVAC system installed so unpacking is halted because they’re running ductwork everywhere. It’s slow because it’s a two man team and it may be slowed further by the Dreaded Lurgy but we shall see.
It is what it is.
Of course in North Carolina, we ain’t so sparse with our syllables…. so ‘Eeee-ut eeee-uz whut eeee-ut eeee-uz’…
Moving on! Swiftly!
It’s been.. exciting! We made two trips with a truck. My daughter Princess PITA, Snidey McSneakaround and Thumper drove up from Georgia to help us move and help themselves to stuff they wanted.
The first drive down on the Monday was with two cars and the truck. I had ‘im indoors van (which is like driving a jello sofa) and it was slow going with constant breaks for diapers and bathrooms because no one could coordinate! Strong winds slowed us too, so much so that we had to stop just outside Richmond for the night. I was pretty peeved but heigh ho. We got there and unpacked the truck next day and then drove back to NY on the Wednesday.
I deserve a medal for not murdering anyone. I really do. Apparently Sneaky can’t navigate. This shouldn’t surprise me given that he can’t find his arse with both hands but heigh ho. I live to learn shit *rolls eyes*
Sthmellyarthe, who, like me, is no fan of the slime bag, had to ride in the truck to tell him where to go. I had to stay close as I was the one paying for gas. We made it back a lot quicker but I still beat them home by over an hour after our last gas stop.
The weather forecast for Thursday pm into Friday was dire so I suggested to ‘im indoors that we pack early on Thursday and then the dimwit and I could get going because he can’t drive in snow..
We were ready to leave by 11:30am so we headed to get gas. I said I didn’t want to stop again until we were through Pennsylvania because of the bad weather alerts and it was already snowing, so I suggested he got a couple of snacks to keep him going. I got a Coke Zero, a Pay Day and a packet of Cheezits.
He got a 40 plus oz bladder buster of soda, a whole stick of pepperoni, a packet of beef jerky and a 8oz block of cheese! You’d think we were doing the Oregon Trail! Seriously, over $40 on flipping snacks! Greedy bastard.
We had freezing fog all the way from Syracuse to Binghamton and it was a bit scary. Very eerie too. Just outside Binghamton he calls me and asks can we stop as he needs a bathroom (no kidding!!)
We were about 12 miles from the Pennsylvania border so I told him we’d stop at the PA welcome center as trying to get off at Binghamton would have been a big delay. He wasn’t happy but tough shit. It was a time crunch. We had freezing fog pretty much all the way to Harrisonburg and then sleet, rain and wind. It was slow going but we kept going. By the tail end of PA he needed the toilet again so I said we’d stop in West Virginia. That sounds mean but it was less than 30 miles and with all the severe weather flashing signs, I just desperately wanted to get out of the danger area. I drove straight through Maryland on I81 (15 miles) and stopped at the WV welcome center. He wanted to stay in WV but it was less than 25 miles at this point into Virginia and I just really wanted to push on. We finally stopped at 9:30pm in Virginia. A journey that would usually take me about 4-5 hours had taken ten. It was exhausting. We stayed at a Quality Inn or something, I honestly don’t remember.
Next morning I checked in with ‘im indoors and they’d had about 18″ of snow. He said leaving when we did was the best thing I could have done. Plows couldn’t keep up and the thruway wasn’t even plowed until 11am so we wouldn’t have made it if we waited.
We still had to get home to NC though and there were severe wind, thunderstorm and flash flooding alerts in progress!
I had Tornado alerts all the way down which was scary. My daughter called to say they had really dreadful winds and it was scary so I was tense worrying.
As we got about 8 miles from home we saw two houses with grain silos planted on them. A tornado had whirled through but that was as close as it got thankfully.
It was a very intense week! Then we had the great Carolina snowstorm of 2020 which was surprisingly more than I expected.
Daisy was not a happy camper!
It was very pretty though
The journey was over and now the adventure had begun!
It looks beautiful. Welcome back!
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Thank you! I’ve wanted to post but I’ve just been busy and tired!
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No worries! You’re back now. 🙂
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Welcome back, welcome home, and gorgeous snow scenes.
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Snow is only ever lovely in photos 😂
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Oh it looks gorgeous and as per usual you made me laugh. We are moving too…one suburb to the next….its tiring we are doing it alone..just the two of us and two dogs…plus the dogs need runs and walks….any hoo back to it….
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It’s harder moving closer than further away! I really know, we once moved further along the same street. Worst move ever!! Good luck with your move too
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Oh so right. We usually do a big move get a big truck fill it and off you go.
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Omgosh!!!! I’m just so happy to hear from you!!!!! Photos are gorgeous BTW!
Hugs hugs hugs! Missed you so much!💕
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I missed you too! I intended getting back before now but always thought of it at the wrong times or when I was just too brain dead to care!
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Moving is always a big deal. Moving over a distance, even worse! So glad you made it!
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We’re not finished, obviously we still have stuff in NY but that can be staggered now 😊
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All the best Britchy.
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Thank you 😊
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Hopefully we will be seeing more of you?
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Oh yes 😊
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Glad you’re safely in your new home! I was thinking about you and hoping you didn’t have to (justifiably) murder someone😉
The snow is very pretty… in pictures. We’ve had rain for the past week or so and I don’t like it! I’d really not like snow.
🌻💌
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If I leave out the bad words I said when I saw snow followed me to North Carolina, this would be a summary of what I said for the next three days
Off
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Stick it up your
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Welcome to North Cacalacky Britchy! I hope you love it here like we do. Congrats on not killing anyone. So happy you made it in one piece!!💗
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It’s simply the best 😊
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We’ve been here over a year now and we’ve never had to pull our snow shovel out of the garage!🤣🤣
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You’re south east of me, I’m just outside Rocky Mount and that couple of hours worth of latitude makes all the difference 😊
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I’m south west of you by a little over 3 hours. We are in Cornelius. Twenty miles north of Charlotte.💗
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Duh of course it’s south west 😂
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“jello van”. All I can picture is one of those vehicles used in Osmosis Jones! Squishy and full of germs and stress!
Glad you arrived. The snow is lovely, but it won’t last too much longer for this season. xo
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It was literally a two day wonder here thank God! It was two days too many for my midget dog and myself though 😂
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Hey stranger! Glad you’re getting settled in. You have more snow than we do.
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Luckily it only lasted two days here 😊
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Welcome back! Glad you’re moved in. I haven’t moved in a decade and half – literally – and I haven’t been on an interstate trip in more than half a decade. (My recent trip to Adelaide was my first trip AT ALL since 2014.)
I’m sure you’ll be back to mischief in no time!
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I’m here in my own at the moment so it’s hard to get into trouble so I had a few pre-emotive strikes before I moved down!!
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Gotta keep busy (and keep them on their toes!).
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The Britch is back!! Nice to see you and the lovely snow pics. Glad you are settled in your new home at last (well, almost, if you need HVAC).
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I have a couple of gas log fireplaces and space heaters so I’m good! I don’t know if the guys will stop working but if they do it’s okay. We’ll get to it. Health first 😊
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I’ve missed you soooooooooooooooooooooo much 🙂
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What a lovely thing to say! Thank you 😊
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You are most welcome. 🤓💜
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Welcome back! Your new house looks lovely, with or without snow.
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Thank you! I much prefer it without!
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That journey was was such an adventure too, now on to the next chapter…
Crazy how things are funnier I retrospect but while they happen its really some end of the world scary stuff
Like how one day we will laugh about the great toilet paper panic buying
Glad to see you in these streets again
~B
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I was beginning to wonder if you had driven past NC and got lost in the Georgia mountains. Glad to hear/read that you finally decided to “light” (southern term for landing somewhere…think of flies or lightening bugs landing on something). Nice Georgian-style home. You have now, officially, joined the slowly dying Tidewater Culture, built by English Gentry:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7
I remember that tornado storm. It got ugly here. And, that snowstorm…your area got more than we did and that is unusual. Normally, snowstorms come from our mountains and move east or, come up from Charlotte. The closer you are to the beach, the less snow…normally.
You are exactly due east of Wake Forest. And, I have a cousin that lives in Wilson. I’ve never actually been to Rocky Mount but, I have been in Elm City, like, over 20 years ago. You are in a pretty area.
Looks like you have some lovely, majestic Willow Oaks in your yard, too. Glad you and the family are safe.
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a gorgeous house! I’m so glad you are here!
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Good to see some sanity is back to the madness or vice versa – but glad you are back 🙂 Glad you are settled in and glad you are happier and less stressed 🙂 I am a bit concerned already though … i don’t think the lawns are big enough for you 🙂
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You’re right they aren’t….. and I won’t be mowing lol
‘im indoors will be out there from dawn to dusk. It will be sooooo peaceful!
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Ha ha, so does ‘im’ have a sit on ride or will he be out there losing weight by trawling the grounds by hand and foot only 🙂
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Oh he has a sit and ride. Big boy toys don’t you know. We actually have just under 5 acres so he needs it really.
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Oh yes very much so, l used to live on 5 acres of ground in Lincolshire, the old farmer’s property – they didn’t entrust me with the machinery though.
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They weren’t completely daft then! I could just see you running amok spreading fertiliser 😂
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You are not that far off, it all happened because of the two pronged forklift they let me drive, can’t remember what it was called, some kind of fork lift digger and l got my feet mixed up and hit the accelerator and not the brake and went through the corner pillars of one of their barns and brought the whole structure down … honestly it could have happened to anyone! After that, l was delegated to foot walking lawn mowers only.
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Sanderson teleporter speedy things!! Quicker than one thinks ….
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Welcome to the south!!! Happy to have you back on the blogosphere!!
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Happy to be back. I’m off to register my car to ‘first in flight’!!
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Welcome back! The way you write well it just cracked me up! I am still laughing here at your descriptions! Did anyone tell you that you should be a comedian? xo
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…. only people who don’t have to put up with my shit on a daily basis!! Thank you 😊
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Hey Britchy 🙂
‘You have been Complimented’
Thanks for the reading.
https://aguycalledbloke.blog/2020/03/21/gifting-the-compliment-10/
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Glad you made it. Your house looks beautiful.
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Thank you 😊
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Hope the unpacking goes well and you can enjoy life in your new home! here’s to the next adventure
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Welcome to Carolina💜
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Great to have you back and glad to hear that you’ve moved in more or less smoothly.
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Yes I’m glad to be settled. We had to have new heating and AC installed so I haven’t been able to finish unpacking yet but now that we have a stay at home order from today here in NC – I’ll have to get on with it!
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Yeah, over here gatherings are really restricted (I think down to two people now); people aren’t allowed to weddings or funerals; and there are real restrictions on the amount of certain items like toilet paper and milk are really restricted. I’m in self-isolation, only going out if I absolutely have to.
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