The Final Day

The final day was the hardest! We showed up with sledge hammers and a demolition mindset! This deck was comin' down! Even though we destroyed a lot of the pieces of the deck, we were able to keep most of them. Dewayne, our hired helper, turned out to actually be a super-hero in disguise that Maddie named, "Epic Ninja." I'm not sure what we would have done without him. Dawn Ryan's family showed up again and did incredible work! It tooks us another nine hours on the final day, but we finished at 5:00 EDT/4:00 CDT. The truck was packed at 16 feet, which saved us about $200 (which paid for most of the hired help we received).

We began driving back to Springfield, Missouri to pick up our little Beatrice and stay the night with Monica's parents. We had a great feeling of "OMG, we can't believe what we just did" combined with "OMG, we can't believe how tired we are!" It took some tag-team driving, but we arrived safely at Grandma and Pawpaw's house at 12:30am!

The truck will be picked up by the ABF driver on Monday and will begin transport to Little Rock. It should arrive around Friday of this week. We are all tired and sick, but satisfied that one major hurdle to our pursuit of mortgage-free, ecological living has been passed! Now all we have to do is build us a deck, put up the yurt, build the interior loft, etc. But I think we have shown ourselves that much more is possible than we ever thought before!