This was going to be a before and after shot ... but ... The last ten days or so have been a small-scale nightmare, ever since the shipping company let me know that the furniture from 20 Hillside would be delivered not on November 6th - the original scheduled date - but this week. Mon/Tues/Wed weren't possible, because of work - so I paid for an extra day's storage, and for the pallets to be delivered into the garage today - and got to work, clearing and sorting the garage ... (if you've ever known it, this may be unrecognizable).
Van turns up, around 3 p.m. Van driver - a single van driver, and not a professional (or even amateur) mover - says we're on a hill, he can't safely park, he can't unload the pallets - eventually, thinks maybe he can unpack the pallets where he's parked, up the road, and bring everything down. Which, he says, would take five or six hours - and in the dark, too. He seems hapless; we feel powerless; there's a lot of telephoning. The upshot, for now - he'll come back tomorrow, with a gaggle of guys hired from the lot at Home Depot, and we'll all try again (that'll be after I do teaching observations, some student meetings, etc etc). My capacity for calmness and rationality was tried and found, I fear, wanting.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Fingers and paws crossed for today's big moving project! Also, it's hard to fathom that spacious space is the garage. Well done!
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