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Moving: done. We moved our furniture ourselves, and friends helped us move our many, heavy boxes, down the stairs to the truck, and up the stairs to the house (which is well above street level). MFH and I were joking about being Frodo and Sam, dragging ourselves up Mount Doom. We then had to thoroughly clean our apartment. (It’s a pity that the apartment was never that clean while we were living there.) Unpacking: about one-third done, with the remainder being half books and half MFH’s stuff. The book boxes are all in a huge pile in the living room: Mount Books. So far the floor is taking the weight okay.

I’ve put on quite a bit of muscle from moving, especially from carrying boxes up and down stairs, but not without several days of being very sore.

We had a nice evening today, weeding the front garden, which is more than half of the front yard. No one had done anything with it all year, so there were plenty of things to pull up. MFH’s mom came this afternoon and showed us which plants weren’t weeds. It is very satisfying to see how much better the garden looks now. But it’s frustrating that the previous tenants let several quarts of raspberries just go to waste on the bushes alongside the house! We moved in right at the end of them, and got no more than a handful.