Well I'm up and checking the forums. Gonna get some breakfast and then head down and do some final tech day preparations.

On today's list:
1: Grab the Int'l and blow up the lawnmower tires.
2: Mow lawns when opportunity presents itself.
3: Begin fixing water to farmhouse as soon as Tom gets there.
4: Once Tom leaves finish painting shop.

That should just about fill out my day. If not I'm sure I'll find something to do.

 

morning all.

 

Time to get out of that bed sleepy heads

 

finally got my truck back. I got the shift solinoids replaced, had to have the pinion bearing and seal in the rear end replaced, they replaced both U-joints.....and replaced a headlight bulb lol.

 

Hi Brian.
Are you going to Pete over the weekend?
I'm probably going on Sun. midday.

 

Good evening everyone.

Had a good weekend to move my stuff.

I only got on round trip in each day Saturday & Sunday.

This is going to take a few more weekends at this rate.

I may take Friday off from work to get another trip in.

 

I moved the my wife's piano out of my mother's house this morning.

I wake up and realize that daughter's friend - boy is over helping daughter lug her stuff over to the new house.

I know not to call him boy-friend

Seizing the opportunity I get him to lend a hand and of course daughter becomes very helpful too.

I'm sure neither one wanted to appear 'stupid' in front of the other.

I had that piano out of the house in short order.

Getting the piano into the new house took a little bit of figuring, but all in all it went quick.

Most importantly no-one got hurt.

 

Good evening Everyone..

Dave sounds like you been busy??

What you should do is have a GTG at your house when everyone shows up load their trucks and take them to the new place..

You can get away cheap.. Just supply the Pizza and Beer..

 

Hi there Don.

 

im goin both days. Pride and Glory is having there big rig show that sunday also, so me and dad are gunna sneak over there.

 

ya know, in all seriousness, thats not a half bad idea.

 

Good evening Dave...Brian...all of CT!!!

Now Dave...didn't I make that suggestion previously???

 

Hi Dave,

How's it going??

I take it your moving into your new castle..

 

Brian I am trying to get platinumpete to enter his truck in the show. his truck could take 1st in the pickup category no challenge. The pickups were pretty pathetic in the spring.

And now I've paired my list down to paint and clean the shop.

 

Hi there Brian & Ken.

The pitfall to the above plan in having a GTG to move my household effects is my wife's interest in peeking inside the boxes before I can load them and where to put the stuff.

I can't blame her, as the house is smaller than our first home, so its a form of triage.

The basement is about 10x20 exterior access only, there's no attic and no garage.

We are doing this in stages as the house is too small to take all the boxes at once.

So loading goes slow, to have the guys all hanging around just doesn't sit well with me.

True, all the boxes were labeled.

Some boxes are going to the new house, others boxes like seasonal / holiday stuff are going to a new shed closer to us.

The rest is being set aside for donation to Habitat, Goodwill, etc.

The old shed is up in Franklin and the new to us house is in Stratford, an easy 80 mile trip each way, and the new shed is about 5 miles away from the new house.

So selected boxes are going into the house for use and then what's not used from the boxes is repacked for further disposition, shed / donate.

I still have to figure out the heavy hauling, my wife has a cement lined safe in the shed up in Franklin. The first time I moved it I had a twin hook wrecker lift it and I backed my pickup truck underneath it, and similar when I dropped it off. The last time I moved it I hired in an Industrial mover who came with a forklift on a tilt-deck truck (that was pricey).

I have two 42" square by 48" Greenly flat-top job boxes which are at my brother's house over in Naugatuck, they won't even fit through the door into the basement, thus that freebie wood shed.

At best I think one guy and a flatbed trailer, and I make the rounds rain or shine that day.