Spence and Doug came over this morning to help A. and me finish up moving. The small stuff that goes in boxes has been moved.
Gee I love my truck. It is such a useful vehicle...like a good horse. Anyways, the big stuff was sitting waiting for Spence and Doug (father and son team). Doug has another truck. Between the two trucks and Spence's van, We thought we had it covered.
I was sure that the queen size mattress would not go up the narrow stairs to the second floor, but 2 strong men and a lot of grunting got it up the stairs into my bedroom. The problem was the frame for the bed. It was supposed to come apart. It would be easy to carry the pieces up the stairs one piece at a time. No one could figure out how the corners should come apart. We see the screws. We took them out, but the frame stayed together. Scandinavian knockdown furniture is supposed to come apart. Right? After all, it came to America in a little box, then put together at the store, right? So all We have to do is the reverse of what the furniture store did. Right?
The frame would not come apart. Then I don't know what Doug did, but one corner came apart. He jiggled something. We did the same thing at the opposite corner and it came apart, too. To hell with the other two corners. It is in two pieces and small enough to go up those narrow stairs. Moved the frame to the new address. Put it back together. Put the mattress on top.
Moved the china cabinet, the buffet, the couch with the hide-a-bed in it (weighs a ton), the kitchen table (now the dining room table). Thank goodness it is not raining or snowing. It is just cold enough that the men take off their sweaters.
The last thing to be moved is the entertainment center. Oh Oh Glitch. It has the same come- apart technology that the bed frame has. The top piece is supposed to come off so the unit can go through the door. It doesn't come off. We lighten the unit all We can. We take the shelves out. Doesn't matter. The thing is the elephant in the living room. Won't budge.
Doug is running out of time. He has to get back to work. A., Spence and I finish the move, leaving the elephant sitting in the livingroom. Problem to be solved another day.
Back home, I start unpacking the glasses , china and tableclothes to be put into the china cabinet and buffet. They had been packed in newspaper. They have newsprint smear on them. I put them away dirty, reminding myself to take the thing apart and wash everything. But that is for another day. Boxes and newspapers are piled outside for trash pick up.
What remains are the boxes containing audio-visual stuff. I need my entertainment center.
Must call a professional mover in the morning.