Moving Daze

Our Rector and his family have moved.

It all began when Josephine called soon after the birth to tell the complex manager that there would be a new resident at the McGrath residence (baby Mary Eve), and whoever it was in the office responded with something to effect, "Didn't we inform you? We're converting the apartments to condos and you have to be out by August 1st." (I'm not sure I have transcribed this perfectly accurately, but it's close enough...)

Relatively new in the job plus the arrival of a new baby, the McGraths needed this like a hole in the head! But Fortune smiled upon them: a new complex just two miles down Avondale Road from the church had a sudden opening and the McGraths were able to lock it in. I'd discussed moving support earlier, but as Fr. Daniel had noted earlier they have not accumulated a lot of "stuff" (unlike yours truly), and in a chat today I learned everything had already been moved.

Big difference in the staff. Former: "Oh, did we tell you you have to vacate on the 1st?" Today (yesterday?): "How is your move going? Can we help?"

Everything has already been moved though I will help when one piece of furniture, damaged in the move from Santa Barbara, is fixed and ready to be moved up from the garage in this three-story townhouse.

A few of us are still thinking about a rectory (not sure we can do that on our property with zoning laws as they are) -- or how to get them into a house, where prices are rising so fast that ownership can become an significant investment option.