Fall Comes to Orange Grove Blvd. #4

I wish all of you could have been with Peter and Penelope Punkie (yes, we are already changing our names for Fall) this morning.Peter tells me that we are going to storage this morning to begin cleaning out and to “let” me bring home some of the Fall decorations to begin decorating our house for the season. Well…that’s all you need to say to me, is “let’s decorate” and I am ready and out the door. We get to storage and begin going through each of the boxes, only to learn that there are boxes and boxes of clothes that need to be taken to our church thrift store and still more furniture to get rid of as our house here will only accommodate half of what we had in Texas. As we begin to look for the Fall Decorations we realize how much we are going to be bringing home to use. We went after 3 fall trees, plus the decor that go on them……..we end up making 3 trips to the car, or as Peter calls it, the “mercedes pick-up”. There is too much for one trip home, so we load the car and head home, knowing that we will be coming back for another trip of fall clothes and decorations. On the way home, Peter pulls into a Halloween store and tells me to get out. I look at him wondering what in the world. When I inquire what are we doing, he says to me, “you don’t think I’m going to unload all this stuff without a costume on do you,?” The neighbors have already called “1-800-I Am A Hoader” on us and he thinks that we will be getting another visit from them if neighbors see us hauling more things into our house. As we “camouflage” ourselves, we begin unloading and hauling upstairs, bag after bag and container after container. We see neighbors peeking out their windows, wondering where in the world all this stuff is going to go, as their houses are exactly the same size as ours. So, we wait until after dark to unload all the bags of “fall clothes” “fall decor” and hope that they dont see us. We are convinced that they probably think we are carrying up dead bodies in bags, but Peter assures me that if we were doing that, we wouldn’t be using the white garbage bags, as all the bags we see on Unsolved Mysteries are always the dark black or green bags. So we are sticking to white to hopefully lesson the neighbors concerns.
Since I didn’t get through writing this post yesterday and am just returning home from Costco today, I have another update. Peter and I take his small 2 seater car to Costco, knowing that we are only going for cheese, gas and Dr Peppers. He reminds me that I cannot buy anything other than these items since we are in his car. Well……we walk down the TV isle and low and behold they have the TV that he has been looking at for 3 months on sale. Do I really have to tell you the rest of the story. Yes, we buy it. We carry it out to the car and of course it is too big for the trunk so he pushes up the seats as far to the front as they will go and proceeds to push the boxed TV behind the two seater. We are pushed up against the dashboard, with our knees up under our chins, and he decides that it will be impossible for him to drive because he can’t position his leg to even step on the brakes, so I unfold my body out of the car and switch seats with him. Cars are passing us, laughing as they pass. We finally make it home, after stopping twice just to let our legs, which have fallen asleep, due to no circulation, get some feeling in them. We arrive at home and begin to unload this when our worst nightmare happens, our downstairs neighbor is walking out and sees us carrying not only a crate of Dr Pepper, but the television. He remarks to us, “are you sure you have room up there for that” which tells me that he was watching us out his window yesterday. I need to close and post this, as I am going to go hide a few of the bags which we brought up yesterday. Our neighbor already informed us that his ceiling is sagging and we are expecting a knock on our door in the morning from “1-800-I Am A Hoarder”.