The movers worked today, Friday, the holy day of the week, and managed to finish packing us out and got everything loaded into five lift vans (just barely). We arrived in six lift vans, so that’s an improvement, although we were still 380 pounds overweight from our 7,200-pound allowance, for which we will have to pay ourselves.

The packers were from the Philippines, Nepal and Bangladesh. The Nepalese man and the two Bangladeshis communicated in Hindi, a language of India. This place is just so interesting linguistically!

I’m happy pack out is over, but sad to be in this very empty house, which once looked so beautiful with all our belongings in it. We have one more week of this before we leave, and of course without our car, so picture taking will unfortunately be at a minimum. Good thing I still have a lot of unused pictures in my archives.

Unusual lines (2), posted earlier: