Planning out our remaining meals.
We sold or will be throwing away our big chairs, so we need some small ones for the next few days.
Walmart has some for $8 a piece, which works.
They also have this calendar; the front cover looks like it was taken around here.
Yep, in Big Sur.
Other pictures.
These priority mail boxes at USPS are great for mailing smaller items, as they're a fixed cost for anything you can stuff into them up to 70 pounds, but we need bigger boxes for our items.
Depositing the money from the moving sale.
The bank wouldn't take unrolled coins, though, so I went to a grocery store with a Coinstar machine.
Unfortunately, this one was out of order.
As was this one at another grocery store I drove to.
This grocery store had two, but one was broken, and the other one was being used by a lady with a ton of coins.
After waiting for her to finish, I deposited mine, and got less than $20. I don't think that was worth driving all over town for.
It didn't accept this one.
It's a ruble. I wonder how we got that?
I'd assume this is for a senate bill 441, but since they restart the numbers every year, almost every year has had a senate bill 441, so I don't know what this person is in support of. Or maybe it's for something else entirely.
We went to Vesuvio in Carmel for dinner.
Famous people's signatures on the wall.
Wine.
Charcuterie board.
Pasta.
Dessert.
Drinking our wine on the rooftop patio.
Every time I drive by this spot, I think how good it would be for a deer, but I never see one. Until today.
This horse and donkey live together.
Lunches are turning into whatever we happen to have left in the fridge and pantry.
Some weeds in the back patio.
Pulled all of them out.
Some more.
Pulled them, too.
Cleaning the trash bins.
And the front windows.
Bunnies.
Deer sausage for dinner. We sold the microwave, so we have to make everything in the oven. Even though it takes longer, it actually tastes better this way.
Our dinner table.
Breakfast.
Putting vinegar and water together.
To clean the toilets.
And the windows.
Cleaning the shower head.
This flower holder of San Francisco didn't sell.
Nor did this neat piece of art.
After trying to sell the expensive stuff online, the moving sale, and the free sale, we still had some stuff left. I called around to different junk removal companies, and this guy was the cheapest.
He did a great job of cleaning everything out. He's just starting his business, so hopefully it works out well for him.
Some of the lights are out in the kitchen.
And in the garage.
The garage ones are skinnier.
We sold the can opener but still had a can of corn, but the remaining tools got it open.
Cooking it with pheasant.
My wallet I've had for years.
I loved it, but time to move onto the next one as it's falling apart.
We definitely have to keep these pictures.
Stuff on the left is take to the thrift store, boxes in the middle we're mailing to ourselves in Hawaii, and the internet modem / router and printer we're taking back and selling right before we leave.
A bunch of different documents and pictures. Many of these we can scan or take pictures of, and then shred or throw away the originals.
All of the stuff we're keeping.
Ogii packing.
A hunter looking for friends.
I dropped off some boxes at BidMongol in Oakland to be sent to Ogii's family in Mongolia.
Then went shopping for new fluorescent lights. They didn't have the exact same ones we did.
But they worked.
Including the skinny ones.
We also had a ton of old laptops and hard drives.
We'd been keeping them, but now it's time to get rid of them. I have all of the data backed up on newer external hard drives and online, so no need to keep the actual computers.
Ogii had written Cyrillic characters on this one.
We don't really want to give them to people as they might have sensitive data, so we formatted them.
And then reinstalled Windows.
Which took hours, but they just were sitting on the floor during that time.
Some of the systems had much older versions of Windows, so it took a bit of Googling to figure out how to do it on those.
We did the same for our old phones.
I also had a number of older external hard drives which I had replaced with newer, faster, physically smaller but with larger data space ones, so I needed to get rid of those as well. I deleted the data, but it's still on the hard drive, and using a program to randomly replace each bit to completely eradiate the data took way to long, so you want to physically destroy them. However, even with a hammer and a screwdriver, that wasn't working very well, so I decided to send them in to a hard drive shredding company.
Same thing with every hard drive in the laptops, so I had to open those up and pull them out.
All of the hard drives ready to be shipped off to be shredded.
I've loved this shampoo, but it hasn't been available in stores for years. It is still available on ebay, though. I'm not shipping it to Hawaii, though, just in case it breaks and gets all over everything.
One of my old planners.
From college.
If you call ahead, you can leave out seven bags of trash as bulky item pickup, which worked perfectly for our leftover trash.
We decided to give the leftover photography prints to Ogii's coworkers, so she wrapped them all up.
The upstairs toilet was running, and they couldn't fix it, so they replaced it.
Dropping off some of the boxes at USPS. A few people have left their reading glasses there.
Taking some leftover stuff to the thrift store.
Ogii having one last lunch with some coworkers.
And me playing one last game of poker at the casino.
We woke up early the next morning to drive to Pinnacles National Park. Ogii cut up some summer sausage for breakfast.
Some turkeys at the park.
A bunny.
There are a bunch of vultures at the park.
But we were more interested in the California condors, which are much bigger.
The park had placed a few spotting scopes here.
Which were aimed at this ridge where condors fly in the mornings. We saw a few soaring around.
Another one.
Ogii looking through one.
You could adjust the focus.
A little bird sitting on top of a scope.
The vultures were down in the park.
Spreading its wings to warm up in the morning sun.
Ogii spotted a group over here.
A couple testing their wings.
The whole group sunning.
Us watching them.
Another little blue bird.
We were leaving as most people were arriving.
Some final food items to clear out.
That's one way to deal with the wine.
Taking a rest on the stairs.
Lots of cleaning supplies left.
Spraying a few spots of fungus on the patio.
Shredding a bunch of documents at FedEx.
Holding our mail until we get a new address in Hawaii to forward it to.
The form didn't like the exclamation point I used at the end of "Thanks!" but it was fine to write "Thanks." I wonder who programmed the form that way. Maybe too many people were yelling at the post office employees through this form?