My parents are moving. Currently, for a very small current that is, they are living in Picayune Mississippi. They are moving to just outside Memphis. My mother grew up here, this is my Grandfather's old farm, now divided up and split among his children, my mother's two sisters and two brothers. This is where we fled from Katrina, to my Uncle's house. It was than that my mother decided that she wanted to move up here, to build and live on her share of the land.
They came back home and talked some more about it. They put their home and land up for sale. It sold within two days. Right now land and homes are at a premium in the gulf coast, there's not enough to go around for all the people that now find themselves without either. They have a month to get out of their old home and into their new one.
They don't have their land cleared, it's full of trees and who knows what else. They don't have a home to put on this land yet. Their old home was a double wide trailer, that is probably what they'll purchase again. They have to pack all their belongings up, they have to get permits, they have a lot to do.
This was a week ago. They've got their land cleared, at least three acres of it. They've purcahsed a new home. They've got their permits. They've packed up a lot of their belongings.
I hate to admit that I'm kind of ambivalent about the whole thing. They live about thirty minutes from me now. And it's not like I see them every week. I get out there about once a month, sometimes less, sometimes more. But it's a weird feeling, knowing that they are leaving and won't be that thirty minute drive from me anymore. It'll be different. I'll probably be home for Christmas. I work in retail, I work the day before Christmas and I have to be at work the day after Christmas, probably for five in the morning. So an eight hour drive both ways witll be hard to do for just a day. So yea, it will be different without them here.
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