The Move Saga

Well, like anyone who’s every moved ANYWHERE, our move had its ups & downs. I don’t know how much I’ll get thru here tonight, but here goes the story of our trip from MT to CO. Like our “best laid plans”, ours went awry as soon as we started loading the truck. We forgot to load two furniture items that should have been at the front of the truck, due to their size & by the time we remembered one of them, the truck was getting pretty full. SOO… off to Bozeman Thursday evening to the ONE U-haul location that stayed open til 7pm. We arrived there at 6:45 & were able to rent a 5x8 trailer to haul behind the big Uhaul truck. Took it all the way back to the ranch & got home about 9pm on Thursday – remember, we’re supposed to leave Fri a.m. We did a little cleaning but pooped out around 11pm & went to bed. Up early Friday & Jeff continues loading… STILL not enough room!! So, he re-loaded, pushed, prodded & crammed, while I purged some of the stuff still left & we thought we finally had it all pretty well loaded – until we realized we forgot the table! Have you SEEN our table? So… Jeff figured out how to get THAT in but the benches just weren’t going – so they stayed behind. I’d been cleaning all this time, and STILL wasn’t done. I had done a lot of the harder cleaning the last couple weeks, but underestimated the time it would take to dust logs and finish up the rest. So, instead of being done at 10am, we were STILL finishing up at 3pm. FINALLY get it cleaned & walk out & realized Kim isn’t there for a walk-thru! He’d driven out earlier with no indication of his return, etc., so we wrote a note & headed down to load Jasmine….. …..who, of course, had other ideas. We were NOT getting our hands on her, so we decided to run her into the round pen to catch her. EXCEPT, that she managed to evade the “run-in” and ended up running around the cabins, all over the ranch. Did finally catch her, but then should wouldn’t load. We’d done a number of “trial runs” with her, that all went great. But, of course, the day we are running so late, she’s decided to be contrary. (Of course, the fact that she’d run all over the ranch & gotten wound up, and the stud horse was screaming at her, didn’t help I’m sure). FINALLY… WE’RE LOADED! So – out the gate, Quick! Roads were pretty slick up to Targhee, but after that was pretty good. Couldn’t move too fast with me towing the horse trailer & Jeff in the big Uhaul truck w/ the trailer, so it took a LOOOONNNGGGG time to get to our stay-over destination of Price, UT. But, the drive thru the Park was beautiful as the sun was getting low, and we missed all the rush-hour traffic in Salt Lake City. And, we met a very nice man by the name of Jason Wilson in a truck stop on the ID/UT border who got us good directions to the fairgrounds in Price (where we had a stall reserved for the night for Jasmine). He is a hay broker, so if you need good quality hay, let us know & we’ll get you his #.  Arrived in Price around 2:30 a.m., exhausted. Drove right to the Fairgrounds, but then couldn’t find the barn / stalls. Walked all over the place! Finally, we saw a dark shape way at the back & discovered those were the stalls. But… they were all locked. I’d been told to use “whatever stall was open” but we couldn’t find one. Finally, after checking literally EVERY SINGLE STALL of the 100 or so there, we found the LAST 4 were unlocked. UGH… get Jasmine settled, water, hay & went down & checked into the Holiday Inn, which was a great hotel – just what we needed! And, they said since we checked in so late, we actually could keep the room for not only that night, but the next one too, for a one-day cost. We didn’t have the time to do so, but at least there wasn’t a hurry to get out of bed & checkout in the a.m. So, crawled into a very comfy, very large king size bed & CRASHED. That was our 1st day… more later on the 2nd half of the move.