More on the Landslide

This morning we awoke to a very thick cloud layer.  We also had running water!  Yay! One of the local news outlets had an article up about how important it was not to go anywhere near the recent slide area because the ground is unstable.  We waffled a little about whether or not we wanted to hike up there, but in the end decided the cloud cover would probably make the hike less hot than if the sun was out, and really - you just have to go.  So we did. 

The most startling thing about the debris field is the fact that the giant boulders were bouncing as the slope of the hill leveled off.  There is a lot of destruction of vegetation.  If you look uphill from where the boulder landed, you can see another crater it dug on its way down.

The boulder - Jim is there for size comparison.

That was a good size palo verde trunk that was snapped off.

Other boulders that came down.

This is where the landslide stopped. There is more devastation uphill, but it was hot, it was uphill so we went home.  There was packing to be done.

Today just sucked!  We have an out door table with a piece of glass in it that's about 39.5 x 28 inches.  We bought a mirror box for it that come in four pieces that you assemble and tape together.  The box is 3.5 inches deep.  The styrofoam corners we bought for the glass were 4 inches deep.  So, we took the styrofoam outside with serrated knives and whittled them down to 3.5 inches.  The strap that was supposed to tighten up the corners didn't work, so we ended up taping them on.  Box assembly was painful and tedious.  However, it's over now.  Then we emptied drawers which made five medium boxes that are very heavy.  Hopefully we have left enough clothing out to make it through.

This most recent Monday we were supposed to get loan status for the buyers.  We have heard exactly nothing on the subject.  It may be that they are converting their offer to cash since their buyers sold their house and have given them money.  If this house sale falls through I think my head will explode. 

As it stands now, we pick up the moving truck and car transporter on 8/15.  The guys that load the truck will be here the morning of 8/16.  We decided not to plan on leaving town on the 16th because we didn't know how long it would take to load the truck, get the jeep on the transporter, get the transporter attached to the truck and etc.  Plus, we'll need to clean some on the way out of the house.  We should make it to Spokane early enough on the 20th that we can go in and figure out where furniture goes.  

The new house will be interesting.  When we lived in RVs, we were basically in a rectangular box.  The house we're currently in is pretty much the same.  Kitchen flows into eating area which flows into living area.  Bedrooms are off to the side, but most of our time is in the box.  The new house has rooms.  Rooms will be weird.  It was weird when we moved here because Jim would be out of my line of sight which he wasn't in an RV.  Now in Spokane he could even be on a different floor.  Maybe we'll use walkie-talkies to communicate.

So, that was today.  A short hike and packing.