This morning, I went to Home Depot and used the remaining balance on a gift card toward the purchase of a 12-volt mini-compressor. I also stopped on that side of town and got a dozen doughnuts and used my last free Redbox code for a movie tonight.
Only $10 and plugs into cigarette lighter.
We plugged it into my car and put air in the tires on one side of the Prowler, then waited an hour until neighbors had moved cars, pulled the trailer to the other side of the street and did the other two tires. Pressure on an empty trailer should be about 30PSI, but with the load, they should be between 45PSI and 65PSI. They are now at 50PSI, and look a lot better.
After that, the Babaloo and I went through five boxes of tools and miscellaneous hardware and condensed it down to three boxes.
Then we loaded up a bunch of stuff (including said hardware and tools) to take over to The Scrap Exchange. This time I was smart and looked to see if the back door was open! It was a lot easier than hauling stuff across the store. :)
Two office chairs, sawhorses, yet another laptop, crafts, and tools/hardware.
The guys in the back seemed particularly thrilled with the sawhorses. The Babaloo figured they'd get some good use out of them, and that's one of those things that isn't large or heavy but cumbersome... and easy enough to replace on the other end.
OH! And while we were organizing tools, the Babaloo found his pop rivet tool, so he fixed the squeak that has been bugging me in the hatch of the car. I am SO thankful I won't have to listen to it for 2200 miles.
My hero.
We spent the afternoon working in the kids' room. We disassembled their computers and packed them in a tub with comforters to protect all the important parts. That will be one of the last things we load in the trailer.
Their 'office' space.
Their bookshelves are cleared, the homemade work space has been taken apart, and pretty much all that's left are their dressers and bunkbeds. We'll finish emptying dressers take the beds apart tomorrow. We're sleeping on a mattress on the floor; it won't hurt them to do so for a couple days in order to have everything organized and ready to go.
One of my cousins just confirmed that she wants three of the eight bookshelves I have to get rid of, and my mom is coming down tomorrow to get at least some of the others. Except for my printer and the Babaloo's CPU, the shelves are cleared and ready to go.
Aha! I also found the Babaloo's graduation tassel when I was clearing the living room shelves. He didn't want it for his rear-view mirror, so it's on mine now. We graduated at the same time, but I didn't get all gussied up and walk across the stage; our respective programs were held late on Friday and early on Saturday, and I chose to be awake for his instead of attending mine. I made room for the tassel by throwing away the six years of parking tags I had accumulated. It is time to stop hanging onto things for the sake of nostalgia. A photo will suffice.
Sufficient photo representing my BA and MA degrees.
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