Weekend in Knoxville

This weekend was somewhat tough. I connected with Cindy and Cissie at my parent's house and with the addition of a trip to Perimeter for Cindy, we headed to Knoxville around 6:30. A long trip to East Tennessee that got us to the Sicards around 11:30 at night. It was around 12:30 by the time we got to bed. I read a bit and then fell asleep.

I slept pretty well and woke up around 6:30 in the morning. I ate breakfast with the inlaws and then went to work trying to help them get ready for the move to the new house. The most significant action was getting the stained-glass roseate in the upper window in the great room. It was about 25 feet up, hanging from two hooks in front of the high window. We did that outside the watching of my mother in law who wanted the glass down, but did not want to know it was happening.

We ended up eating at Missy's house and I went back to the Sicard's house and slept rather fitfully that night.

The next morning, I woke up and we went to work on getting things packed. Cindy's dad and I worked in the workroom in the basement. We cleared out several shelfs with various items. It took awhile and we worked hard but didn't get everything done. Unfortunately, the father in law is a meticulous packrat and has things he saved from New Orleans to Atlanta to Orange County to Thousand Oaks to Knoxville. It was wild. He wanted me to take things and I have my own problems with packratism. I turned him down most of the time. Of course, I have no sentimentalism for most of this stuff and its rather easy for me.

Anyway, we left about 2:30 and got home around 7:00. Fun weekend. I am very tired and don't look forward to a rough night before tomorrow morning. Next weekend we take Kate up and then go back to Knoxville. Fun.