Its done!
We got the first round of furniture loaded and off to moms! We unloaded it and started loading my Cobra chairs right as it started raining. Luckily for me that the storage is pretty close to mom's house. After unloading those, we headed home. We were going to take a second load, but mom and Annie called and said that we didn't need to make a second trip. They fit the last piece in mom's car. I told her to hold off, that she needed to take my office chair so she would have something to sit on at the computer. When we got here, mom was pulled up in the driveway, and I had James pull in behind her. We got Annie's chair out of the house, and James' chair into the house, no problem. Then James goes to start the truck to move it for mom and Annie, but it won't start. He tries again. It won't start. Several attempts later, but still no go. We open the hood, everything looks in place, the battery doesn't seem to be the problem. Sounds like the starter. So the three buff Dalpoggetto women that we are, my sister, mom and I pushed the truck out of the driveway so mom could pull out her car. Then the three of us pushed it back into the driveway and in far enough so that Lizzy could park.
James is going to have Mark at work take a look at it tomorrow. He called momma Donna and apparently this truck has been known to have starter problems. Before she gave us the truck, she had it looked at and stuff, specifically the starter and ignition. They couldn't find anything wrong. So I'm a little pissed. I told James having a truck we can't rely on means we don't really have a truck. It was lucky that it happened to be in the driveway, but what if we were at storage? Or over the hill? Or down in Monterey? I don't want to dump money into it even though we didn't have to pay for it. Hey it got the bar up from SLO county. It got mom's furniture out of granny's. I guess if worse comes to worse I can call my pop and have him come down with the big truck and move stuff that way. I don't want to have to do that, but I don't want to be moving stuff and get stuck at the storage or in a parking lot somewhere.
We accomplished what we needed to today and that is all that I'm focusing on now. We've got 25 mins to dinner for Vireo's birthday, but I just don't know if I can must up the energy to do it now. I hope if we don't make it she'll forgive me. It was just a pooplin afternoon.
James is going to have Mark at work take a look at it tomorrow. He called momma Donna and apparently this truck has been known to have starter problems. Before she gave us the truck, she had it looked at and stuff, specifically the starter and ignition. They couldn't find anything wrong. So I'm a little pissed. I told James having a truck we can't rely on means we don't really have a truck. It was lucky that it happened to be in the driveway, but what if we were at storage? Or over the hill? Or down in Monterey? I don't want to dump money into it even though we didn't have to pay for it. Hey it got the bar up from SLO county. It got mom's furniture out of granny's. I guess if worse comes to worse I can call my pop and have him come down with the big truck and move stuff that way. I don't want to have to do that, but I don't want to be moving stuff and get stuck at the storage or in a parking lot somewhere.
We accomplished what we needed to today and that is all that I'm focusing on now. We've got 25 mins to dinner for Vireo's birthday, but I just don't know if I can must up the energy to do it now. I hope if we don't make it she'll forgive me. It was just a pooplin afternoon.