A Moving Day

Not emotionally moving—saw moving. I finally had the shop ready for the saw. Now I had to move the 270 lb 3 ft by 4 ½ ft thing to the back yard and get it into the shed. It is fortunate that the saw has a great built-in dolly system (they call it Herculift). I rolled it around the house to the backyard on a “road” of plywood, rolling it from one piece to another and then moving the back piece up ahead again. The rolling road worked fine. Now I had to get it into the shed door which is about 18 inches high.

I used the ramp from the trailer for a ramp into the shed. Then I used plywood to cover it and make a smooth surface. A couple of pulleys and a ratchet provided the mechanical advantage I needed and I pulled the saw up the ramp and into the shed with no issues.

We made it to church tonight—the first Saturday night mass in 3 weeks. Just before the end of the service I let out with a big sneeze (covered in my sleeve but still quite loud). Besides Penny’s “God bless you” I got several others from all over the church. I couldn’t help but laugh.

I just fed the outside cats and now we are in the middle of some heavy rainfall. It was a warm day today with fog in the morning and evening. Now it’s supposed to rain on and off through Tuesday. When the rain started the noise of the heavy drops hitting scattered the cats. They did come back and polish off the food, rain or no rain.

After moving the saw I unhitched the trailer from the CRV and moved it to its place beside the driveway. Now, after all the lifting and pushing and pulling I’ve done my poor little body is achy all over. It didn’t seem like a lot of work as I was doing it but I guess it added up.

I talked with brother Lou today. He goes to Mesa AZ on the 19th. After that he may come back to Niceville where he says they may have free housing for him or he may go to Connecticut. He wants me to check air fare versus bus fare to Mesa from Portland.