Oh noes! Someone stole the cars!

Well, that's just what it looks like from the outside. In truth, ERESTOR and GLRFNDL are safely (and snuggly -- gosh, those are two big vehicles!) tucked away in the garage. Took just over four months to get it to the point of nearly cleared out, but tonight when we got home to fill the gas can for the snow blower, I basically looked around and decided 'You know, I just wrote a novel. In a month. For the fifth year in a row. I think we can clean this garage out.'

Perhaps deciding this at 10pm on a weeknight was not the wisest, especially on a night when the temperature was hovering around 30 degrees, when I had a stomach ache, but, I'm stubborn when I get an idea into my head. And, I think, I still was on a fun-high from having just been at the really, really awesome NaNoWriMo TGIO Happily Ever After Party (at least, I thought it was awesome, but then, I'm biased. And, it really was awesome, and the Borders folks said we were welcome back any time despite our loudness and silliness - yay).

We managed, in less than two hours, to move all the large furniture into the house, except the old headboard. We also managed to pile up things or bag them up and leave them on the curb for the trash pick up tomorrow. We even swept the garage. Then, took the SUV (that would be GLRFNDL) to get gas.

This is the first time in over ten years that ERESTOR (the war wagon) is in a garage. Actually, more like 15 years. His adventures in his lower teen years consisted of being moved from one side of the street to the other, with an occasional trip to the city dump.

So, 2.5 car garages rock. Because you can fit in two big cars, and, have room for snow blower, lawn mower, and tons and tons of crap the former owners didn't take with them, including -- wait for it -- four shelves of dolphin knickknacks. And eight boxes of clothing. And... oh, nevermind, the fish tank is mine. But, the majority of the crap that we still have to donate to Goodwill is was theirs.

Including the broken snow blower. So, that should be, enough room for two snowblowers.

Oh, we named our new snowblower Vader. Yeah. We name just about anything that gets plugged in or filled with gas. *nods* Actually, the house even has a name...

(No, it's not The Last Homely House. Wrong fandom, actually ;)