Good Omen or Practical Joke?

This morning the sight out my window does not look quite right six days short of May. The snow is back and spring appears to have been cancelled. The forecast calls for a big improvement just before we move out to the homestead. Good omen or practical joke?
Today is a day of packing and moving stuff out to the storefront. These are boring tasks that we have had a lot of practice at lately. This move from British Columbia to the homestead has been a record breaker in every category. The distance, over 2000 kilometers. The amount of stuff to be moved was unprecedented. The truck and trailer made 5 very overloaded trips. The move required staging from Langley to Tisdale, from Tisdale to Hudson Bay, and now from Hudson Bay to the homestead. The cost topped 7k which is a lot for frugal people like us.
A number of people asked us if it would not have been better to downsize more before the move, even if that meant re-aquiring certain items on this end. First, we did downsize and I mean radically. It would be fair to say that between us we divested at least half of what we owned in terms or weight and bulk. We might have been willing to cut even deeper if we were moving from a rural area to an urban area. Typically prices are lower and selection is better in an urban area. We tried to evaluate each item according to how useful or personally valuable it was and how the economics of moving or disposing worked out. It will be some years before we can make a final accounting of the choices we made.
Our days of living out of our matched 100 piece luggage set (Rubbermaid tubs) are far from over. Even after we finish moving everything on to the homestead, there will be years of shuffling around as work, living and storage spaces are added and improved.
It has been fairly said that minimalism is a great tool in the pursuit of economy, independence and security. As true as that is, the self sufficient homesteader has to balance minimalism with function and comfort. If you are moving from one furnished apartment to another, you can travel light. If you are moving to a piece of bush that has virtually no “improvements”, it seems to demand a fairly large collection of objects.