Originally Posted by
cantwait
I have a great flour tortilla recipe you can just do in a pan! I'll dig it up...
I shipped 2 spice containers of Cumin, so afraid of missing the Mexican food. But we'll try to grow Cilantro and great news on the tomatillos and jalepenos, Lindreth!
As for the warmer weather.......well, that's why we chose Far north (that and cheaper land!).
I think Ranier changed their local moving company -- or the way they contract because the guys showed up and just cranked away allll day....not stopping for lunch. I kept offering coffee or water or snacks. They said they get paid a flat rate so are motivated to finish early. My husband supervised most of it (because they WILL pack anything around them if left unsupervised) and said they did a phenomenal job packing everything safely and efficiently. I think the local agent was "Dirk's"?
What we did is created a "safe" room... which had anything that was NOT going into the container. This was a room that we could shut the door and told the packers to stay out of. (I kept my laptop in there too so I could shut the door and the stress out for a while to get away -- it's quite crazy to have people attacking your house for 2-3 days...)
Funny so many desert-dwellers in or going to or have come from NZ?!?
Thanks for the info on this! I've found Ranier online so will ask for a quote.
You used a 40' container, so I'm guessing you had a lot of furniture? My house is only 1200 sf, 2 bedroom plus artist studio. Other shippers told me I'd only need a 20' container. My plan is to number everything with sticky-notes. #1 = highest priority. If I run out of room, the things that don't go into the container will be the lowest priority.
I joke that I have to make my annual trip to NZ so I can rehydrate.