Virtually Packed

Now that I have finished working on furniture for Christy it is time to load it on the 8x5 ft open trailer and haul it to Gainesville. I have a TV stand (base and top unit pictured in previous blog), A sofa bed, a coffee table two 18-inch ottomans, two chairs, and a small recliner for Karen.

The coffee table shown here cost us $38. The top was badly scuffed and one caster was broken off. I managed to repair it and remove the scratches and gouges on the top. There is still some discoloration in the wood grain finish, but now it is smooth. The coffee table top extends up so it can be used as a TV table to eat or do work while you sit on the sofa. List price for this table was $449. Christy is getting a very nice (also a big and heavy) piece of furniture.
















It was very hot today – equivalent to 103 degrees- I didn’t want to be moving furniture in the heat. So I measured everything and sat down on the computer to do a digital equivalent of cutting out pieces of paper and fitting them into the available space. I found that everything should fit on the trailer and we may put the recliner in the back of the CRV. Here is a top and rear view of the virtual packing.














When we talked to Christy tonight Penny said that I had virtually packed the trailer - which was interpreted as being essentially finished. I had to explain which “virtually” we meant. Christy made some comment about "you can take the engineer out of the computer but you can't take the computer out of the engineer." Tomorrow we may actually start moving furniture. It not only has to fit, but we have to protect the cargo from wind and rain. We have to expect rain somewhere along the way and with the open trailer keeping things dry will be a challenge. Tune in next week to catch the continuing story of our packing adventure.