Packing and swimming news

Thank goodness today is today because I'm not sure I can keep going at the pace at which we've been going for very much longer. In the morning the packers are coming. 

I...don't really know what they're going to do. I thought we had to be ready to pack and load all in one fell swoop, but I was wrong.

The packers are coming tomorrow and they're going to...pack...stuff.

What stuff? I don't know because we actually did a whole lot of the packing ourselves (leaving all the boxes untaped for inspection by the packers) and have everything that might need to go on the boat in The Boat Room. 

And I'm just overwhelmed from making decisions. 

Like, I can't just go into the garage to decide what might need to come on the boat, you know? I have to pull out all the scrap wood and give that away. And then I have to unearth the bocci balls and decide we'll probably play that a time or two. And what about croquet? Well, the croquet set has seen better days so we won't take that. So we start a trash pile (because there's no sense in putting it back "away," having already determined that it's lived its best life...

In short: every project has been much longer than we originally intended it to be.

I still have piles of stuff behind me that I simply...cannot...deal with right now. So I guess none of that stuff is making it on the boat. My brain is just broken from trying to figure out how to live here for the next 50 days with limited stuff and then how to live there for however long with limited stuff and...I just cannot really think about what we will need. 

But I think we'll be fine. 

In other news, Phoebe is going to compete in the swim meet tomorrow—her very first time. She can barely make it across the pool but she is so excited to try for a ribbon.

Here she is before her practice, rocking Alexander's old swim hoodie:

We have a big storm system rolling in right now so the weather's been kind of wonky. This morning, for example, it was cold (though not as cold as yesterday—perhaps because we brought sweaters this morning in response to how cold we were yesterday). At 9:00 this morning it was only 70°F (21°C), which was lovely weather for cleaning out the garage but not quite as nice for swimming... By 6:00 this evening it was nearly 90°F (around 30°C) and so very humid. 

With so many thunderstorms in the forecast, who knows if we'll even have our swim meet tomorrow? Perhaps she'll have to swim a make-up meet instead. Whatever the case, she's very excited to be on the team (she wanted a team suit right away but, uh, I didn't ever buy her one so...I guess she'll be racing in her "rufflebutt" suit). She is excited to write a heat sheet on her arm ("or leg!" she reminded us) and sit in the "bull pen" with the swim team kids and have everybody cheer for her.

So, pretty big stuff over here!