{"id":458,"date":"2006-08-03T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/its-time-to-get-out.html"},"modified":"2007-02-11T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T14:09:44","slug":"its-time-to-get-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/its-time-to-get-out.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to get out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had another day without the kids (thanks to some friends who agreed to watch them for the day).  So, we were up to our ears in packing again.  Now the walls are mostly bare &#8211; with only nail-wounds where pictures and photos once hung.<\/p>\n<table width=\"208\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"341\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A sign that Calgary is growing...\" src=\"\/images\/growing-calgary.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a lot to do, though.  I have no idea how we&#8217;ll get everything done in time for the moving sale, only 2.5 weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was also the first day that the management could show our apartment to potential renters.  First thing in the morning the apartment was shown twice, then the manager knocked on our door again to hand us the notice &#8211; our apartment had been rented.  &#8220;What took you so long?&#8221; I asked.  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