Chapter 17: Storage Finally Done (Part Two)

Then I decided I would take my first break and head to the Alturas Rancheria Casino and buy two cartons of cigarettes, as they were cheaper there. When I used to live in Alturas I would buy them there all of the time at $12.00 a carton but they had gone up and they were different brand called Smokin Joes for $17.00 a carton. I bought two cartons to save me from paying $3.59 a pack the cheapest ones in Tulelake.

When I first went inside the Casino I noticed there had been some big changes now, they had a big screen TV and ballroom and bar for entertainment events. Wow! How things change. I even noticed this other strange building on the other side of the casino parking lot. I asked one gentlemen standing in the parking lot what it was going to be and he told me they were building a cigarette factory. Things were moving up in Alturas. After I bought my cigarettes and left I decided to stop at the Veterans Park so that Feisty could do her stuff if she needed to. Then, I left to head back to the storage unit as I did not want to be in Alturas any longer that I needed to for reasons I will explain some other time. I noticed a few other new businesses and buildings had been built since I was in Alturas last.

I thought to myself as I was heading back I would make another trip from the storage unit behind the gate to the one outside the gates and then go inside and let them know I was cleaning out the storage unit behind the gates. It was taking about two hours for each trip and that would put it around 2 PM by the time I finished the second trip. I loaded the van and did as before with Feisty, except this time I took some larger items that took up more space and I loaded the van much quickier than I thought I would this time. I decided to make a third trip and after I finished it, I would then go inside and let them know what I was doing. The clock light in the van was not working, so I could not tell what time it was; because it was not lighting up any more. It would do that sometimes and then after awhile it would come back on, on its own, but it was not doing it any more and has not been on since we left to go to Reno to pick up Arnolds wife and granddaughter on Sunday morning.

I made the third trip and unloaded the stuff into the storage outside the gates and went inside to pay for the storage on the outside storage that was due on the 9th and today was the 7th of August 2008. The storage unit behind the gate, the storage payment was not due until the 13th of August. I had been concerned about whether I was going to be able to get it all done in one day. Things were looking up and I had already made a big dent in the storage behind the gates, but there was no way I could get it done before 4 PM when the Alturas Mini Storage closes.

I paid the storage for the outside storage unit and then had to write a note and sign and date it for the person who would be working on Monday as Jennifer was not going to be there on Monday because she was flying to Las Vegas to pick up her daughter but she signed me out of the storage behind the gates and would change the code after 4 PM, so I could get credit with the 7th as the date I moved out of it. She put in a new code that would work after 4 p.m. so I could still get in and out that would be a temporary code until I got the rest of it moved out.

Then I headed back in for my 4th load and it looked like after loading it that I could get the rest of the stuff I wanted to take with me back to Tulelake in the van for the final load. All I had to do now was unload the 4th load and then do the clean up of the storage unit by sweeping out and taking out all the trash I wanted to throw away. I cleaned it up after I had the 5th and final load out of the storage and now could go home to Tulelake.

I was leaving and headed to the where I had to punch in the code to get out of behind the storage gated area. I punched in the old code first to see if it still worked and it did not work as the system had been updated and download with the new information that Jennifer had inputted. The gates did not open. Then I tried the new temporary code Jennifer had given me earlier and it didn’t work either. I sat there for a moment and thought gee that’s all I need is to be stuck behind the locked gate with no cell phone to call anyone. No one to call because the Alturas Mini Storage was closed and that was all I would need to do is have to climb over the fence and find a phone to call 911.

Finally done and now I was going to be stuck behind the gates at the Alturas Mini Storage, unless someone came along and needed to get out as it would not be open again until Monday morning, that is if anyone showed up as Jennifer wasn’t sure if anyone was going to show up to work on Monday.

I tried the code again and waited for it to work and thank God this time the gate opened, what a sigh of relief it was when the gates opened. I was now finally finished with the storage unit behind the gate and had accomplished my goal of finally, after a year and half of getting the storage units, to now have just one outside the gates. Now it was just a matter of heading back to Tulelake with a wooden table tied to the roof of my van after I had no where else it would fit, except on the roof of my van and the van inside was loaded with my dresser, a tall book shelf, pots and pans, along with other odds and ends of things I wanted to take to Tulelake with me for my new home.

Home sweet home with things now that I had not seen around me in a year and half that now could be unloaded and help to make my new home look like home again.

Praise the Lord!

Maranatha! Cor 16:22

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