the move
Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 8:55 pm
I haven't been on here as much lately.
We did our move from SE West Virginia to NW South Carolina.
It's been crazy - everything in boxes, a new (actually old) house I know nothing about as to wiring, plumbing, hell! even where the septic tank is located.
Slowly we're getting settled in which is not easy.
An example: my wife buys a paper towel dispenser for me to mount under kitchen cabinets. After going through boxes in the garage (there are two - a detached 2 car from the original house & a 2 car attached on an addition) I find my Dewalt cordless drill but have no clue where the bits are.
It's just frustrating.
On top of that there was a list of items the moving company can't/won't move (firearms, fireworks, aerosols, fire extinguishers, flammables, etc) so I decided to bring my firearms down in a few separate trips.
Foggy on this because SO MUCH was happening SO RAPIDLY in such a short time but "think" I brought a few down for the closing (not sure now) since we stayed a couple nights sleeping on air mattresses.
Brought the others down in two more trips the next being two weeks after the closing.
I'm putting my collection away in the safes and think, "Wait, I have my 12 SxS in that safe and the .410 SxS in that one so where's the 20?" and start taking inventory, start checking all the crazy places I hide firearms and coming up missing a Churchill Windsor 20, a Polytech AK and an old family Remington model 24.
I am pissed and disgusted.
When I came down alone two weeks or so after the closing I mentioned to my wife that being unfamiliar with the house the back door deadbolt wasn't locked and she said, "Well, the house is empty except for air mattresses, what's to steal?"
IDK if the guns were here then or if someone has a key.
I had all the locks rekeyed, my guns serial numbers are on the national crime base as stolen and still heartsick - two I can replace at much more than I originally paid if I wanted to but that model 24 was my dad's uncle's, then my dad's, then mine and was going to go to my son.
Photo is my father and son probably 1991 or 2 and the blonde furniture AK on left is the stolen one - the Hungarian single stack and dark wood I've sold over the years but really loved that blonde one.
We did our move from SE West Virginia to NW South Carolina.
It's been crazy - everything in boxes, a new (actually old) house I know nothing about as to wiring, plumbing, hell! even where the septic tank is located.
Slowly we're getting settled in which is not easy.
An example: my wife buys a paper towel dispenser for me to mount under kitchen cabinets. After going through boxes in the garage (there are two - a detached 2 car from the original house & a 2 car attached on an addition) I find my Dewalt cordless drill but have no clue where the bits are.
It's just frustrating.
On top of that there was a list of items the moving company can't/won't move (firearms, fireworks, aerosols, fire extinguishers, flammables, etc) so I decided to bring my firearms down in a few separate trips.
Foggy on this because SO MUCH was happening SO RAPIDLY in such a short time but "think" I brought a few down for the closing (not sure now) since we stayed a couple nights sleeping on air mattresses.
Brought the others down in two more trips the next being two weeks after the closing.
I'm putting my collection away in the safes and think, "Wait, I have my 12 SxS in that safe and the .410 SxS in that one so where's the 20?" and start taking inventory, start checking all the crazy places I hide firearms and coming up missing a Churchill Windsor 20, a Polytech AK and an old family Remington model 24.
I am pissed and disgusted.
When I came down alone two weeks or so after the closing I mentioned to my wife that being unfamiliar with the house the back door deadbolt wasn't locked and she said, "Well, the house is empty except for air mattresses, what's to steal?"
IDK if the guns were here then or if someone has a key.
I had all the locks rekeyed, my guns serial numbers are on the national crime base as stolen and still heartsick - two I can replace at much more than I originally paid if I wanted to but that model 24 was my dad's uncle's, then my dad's, then mine and was going to go to my son.
Photo is my father and son probably 1991 or 2 and the blonde furniture AK on left is the stolen one - the Hungarian single stack and dark wood I've sold over the years but really loved that blonde one.