Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Closer, closer, closer

Two days till closing on our house, three days till our cruise. Hauled a bunch of stuff to storage. We have to be totally out on Friday @ noon. Seems by looking at what's left that we'll never make it. Teresa doesn't seem to be worried, keeps sewing away. As things go we are pretty good at making deadlines, so I figure we'll make it.

It's a good thing we're not moving furniture - left all of it for the buyers. They'll make better use of it than shoving it into storage for 6 months to a year.

We're hoping to relocate to Oklahoma or Texas, someplace warm, in six months or so, now we won't have to move it again. Teresa was born in OK and her parents and brother and family live there. Got to be better than waking up to -3 in Chicago.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Packing it in !!!




Going flat out... no not in a truck, yet. Teresa has finished her last two quilts - now I can get all of her sewing stuff and the living room, where all of her sewing stuff is, packed up. They sure are beautiful...so is the person holding the quilts... that's Teresa.

The quilt on the left is the one she made for Claire, Ledo and Aslan. The one on the right is for Jennie, Scott and Hunter. For the record, both Claire and Jennie are pregnant. You'll be seeing more of all of them in the future.
This morning we're packing up bunch of stuff for Teresa to take down to the University of Illinois where Andrea is a senior and Tracie is a freshman.
Yesterday I disconnected the DVD and Tivo... Gave the Tivo to my neighbor, Tim, to which he replied "now I'm in 21st century."
Tomorrow is our drug test. On Wednesday and Thursday we have the moving truck reserved, courtesy of Keller Williams Realty of St. Charles. On Friday we close on the sale of our house at 1:00 and at 4:00 we meet with our accountant for 2007 income taxes.
The next post will probably be from the beginning of our cruise to Mexico on Saturday
- buena suerte

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Good morning, folks. While we gearing up for the real stuff and while I continue to play, I thought I would grab a few pics out of our family history. Enjoy...
Here's Tracie, Teresa and Andrea waiting for the sunrise at the top of the Haleakala volcano on Maui. Wouldn't think it can get down to close to freezing in Hawaii, but on the top of the volcano it can. Here's Adam under one of the falls on the road to Hana.

This is a picture of the whole family. While we were in Maui this past summer Claire (cute one in the middle) decide to get mauied.
Anyway this is all five kids, plus one sleeping grandchild and the groom.


Here is our wonderful house we're selling on 2/1... Been here 10 years.










It's getting to be bit hectic. We're packing for our cruise, packing for training, packing to vacate and continuing to work. Who's on first and what's on second. We even had to go buy more underwear to spread around. We each have a bag packed for the cruise (summer stuff) and for training (real cold stuff). Talk about contrasts. Plus, when we get back from the cruise on 2/11 we are homeless (so to speak) and have to go back to work for 3 final days before heading up to GB.
We're not really Packer fans but why not "GO PACKERS."

Saturday, January 19, 2008




So, I'm just playing at this point, loading up stuff and testing out my ability, and interest, in blogging.

As I mentioned in prior posts Teresa is quite a quilter. Note that says quite not quiet... quilter.

This quilt is currently on our bed.




This is the quilt Teresa made for Andrea, she's the senior at University of Illinois.
She worked on this while Andrea was in Waginenen, The Netherlands as a foreign exchange student. It think it was her way of making sure Andrea was staying safe...











She's working on this quilt now... and cutting out another. Oh and I forgot she just cut one out for Mom - she's just started quilting, too. Now I'm buying material for two nuts at once.















Friday, January 18, 2008

Closing the Book

The Trucking Funks are myself, Bob, and my wife Teresa. We're turning the last pages towards conclusion of successfull careers in data processing. The last two of 5 kids are in college, Andrea graduates in May and Tracie is a Freshman.

We currently live in a suburb of Chicago. We've sold our house, lucky for us, it closes on 2/1. Then we're off on a Carnival Cruise (2/2) down the western Mexico coastline, hoping to see some whales. Then we head for truck driver training in Green Bay, WI, on 2/15.

We'll be training with the big pumpkin trucking company, Schneider National. We expect to be based out of Gary, IN for our team trucking, at least for the short term.

Teresa is finishing the last of her quilts. We actually left almost EVERYTHING in the house for the new buyer, so we have very little to move. Hurray for me!!!

We're learning gobs from the orange web site pumpkindriver.com.

So exciting, we can hardly contain ourselves. Way back when I joined the Army and saw much of Europe, now we're joining trucking to see the great US of A.

Please follow our saga as we live and learn on this new adventure.

Bob