Moving Houses

Hi folks

Sorry theres been no update for a few days, we had the internet disconnected at the rental house and we have only just got internet over here in the new one.

So whats been doing since Calgary.....................

Well we have moved over to the new place and are mostly out of the old place, pretty boring stuff so we'll skip over that, hired a big "UHAUL" truck but it still took us about 4 journeys. Bought a gas (petrol) mower to chew through the jungle that was waiting for us, not saying it was long but we found a basket ball and a couple of pairs of shoes (no feet in them like down in Vancouver) sorry that was a bit uncalled for......................

Anyway we thought we would treat our selves o a new propane barbeque, dirt cheap down at Canadian tire ($140) so jobs a guddun. Well so we thought................

Oh it looks great now but what a pain in the ass to build, and i had to take a part back coz it was busted, anyway 4 hours later and the damn thing was put together, we turned on the gas, hit the starter and fired it up.....................

Now bear in mind it was now 11:00 at night, i was sunburnt and mozzie bitten and Jan was just mozzie bitten, its amazing over here, even the nuts and bolts were scorching hot in the sun as we were building it. Anyway i looked at Jan, Jan looked at me and we thought "sod it", threw a couple of salmon steaks on there and had a late supper.

Anyway back to the part about moving houses, no the title is not about us moving from one address to another address, its about us literally moving a house (Raymond Style).

Okay heres the back ground................

When we bought the house there was a very large play house in the back garden, and the old owners wanted to take it with them, i didnt have a problem with this as we didnt want it and Luke is too old for it anyway.

My plan was to keep well out of the way when he came round for it as i really doubted whether it could be moved. Well as usual i got roped in and was nominated the (placing the trailer Guy) obviously because its what i do for a living.

Darnell (last owner) & family turned up with a posse of eager helpers, his truck and a large trailer, 10 minutes later there was a clatter, a bang, a bit puff of smoke and the forklift driver guy turned up astride his mighty fork lift contraption.

My thoughts were................. "Oh Dear".

The good news is the fire house and hospital are only a few blocks away, so with that thought in mind we got the forks under the playhouse and took the strain, as the house started to sway and distort we decided to strap the thing to the boom to stop it falling off or collapsing.

Well up it went and down the driveway it went but we couldnt get it high enough to lift onto the trailer, then someone had a great idea, lets balance it up some railroad sleepers to get a bit of extra height. By now i was feeling a real part of country town life and very redneck, so much in fact that the whole thing seemed like a great idea.

We got the thing onto the trailer (miraculasly) without any (major) mishaps, waved goodbye to the forklift guy then waved goodbye to Darnell and family as the disapeared off into the Canadian sunset.

I spoke to him again yesterday and he is still working out how to get the thing off the trailer, never mind Darnell, you may have lost a playhouse but you have gained a mobile home. 8¬)