Heat and Confusion

Wednesday June 22, 2016

The furniture people called last night with good news - the new couch was ready to ship. If they got it on a truck tonight it would probably arrive on Friday. The delivery consisted of two boxes on pallets, each about 3' by 3' by 7' long and about 200 lbs each.

So I called Ryan (my go-to person for stuff) and he said he had two furniture dollies available and he would drop them off Thursday. We would dismantle and remove the old love seat (this thing must weigh in at about 300 lbs) on Thursday so we would be ready for Friday's delivery. For Wednesday I had already borrowed two work horses from Ryan to use for refinishing the two Pilothouse doors.

We are now in full blown Charleston summer. Its hot - 90 to 95 degrees every day with plenty of humidity with a Melbourne North wind (but from the West). Wednesday was no exception, and with the two pilot house doors off (on the horses on the dock) there was no point running the a/c so we were just going to be hot for two days. And we were.

Working on a door

 Lo and behold the phone rang at about 2PM Wednesday with the news that we had a furniture truck with two large boxes waiting for us in the parking area. Apparently the shipping company had driven thru the night and were here to deliver, two days early. So our relaxed plan turned into a frenzy of activity in the 95 degree temps, and by 5 PM I was buggered and Deidre was feeling faint.

New cushions and all.

Thursday we bolted the two pieces together and started to clean up the mess on the dock. Gave the Pilothouse doors and the door jambs two coats of varnish and planned to reinstall them in the AM.