Our lives in pallets

We've spent the past month sorting though all of our remaining household goods, separating them into groups:

• Discard (and why did we bother moving these to Falmouth???)
• Donate to the Falmouth public library, Goodwill, or the Salvation Army
• Fob off on Re-gift to friends and family
• Pack and store at Gentle Giant for the duration
• Leave in Falmouth for our return in 2021
• Take with us on the plane, for our first couple of months in France
• Stuff into boxes for shipment via slow boat to France

Yesterday we nailed down that last category:

And a few minutes ago, off they went:

There were several moments of excitement. When the driver lowered the tailgate, it stopped about halfway down. He fiddled around with the control wiring for a bit and discovered that a fuse might have been blown, and he didn't have a spare. I asked to look at the fuse; it's the same style we use on the boat, and luckily we still have a box of stuff to take to the Bonnie lass, including this:

Yea, team - it worked.

The other moment came as he started to load the first pallet (the heavier of the two) onto the tailgate. The box tilted............and didn't fall over. Whew!