So ever since the garage job started the first week of August the overhanging question was would it be done in time for us to move all the stuff from the Chicago apartment into it at the end of October. And no, unfortunately, I did not meet my goal of taking daily progress pics, sorry about that.
Pics or now, on October 29th, question answered, YES, the garage is done. So that’s the good news. Yay!
It’s done! although, note the mud washing into the driveway
Chicago moved safely into garage
So like I said the snow followed us back from Denver. Here are tree branches with snow and colored autumn leaves, from Thursday morning when I walked to the corner stare for milk & bananas, and a view my front porch.
Colored leaves and snow
More colored leaves and snow
Halloween morning
When I got back from Colorado Wednesday night, it seemed like there was kind of a lot of dirt washed into the driveway. But it started snowing pretty soon, and I didn’t think much about it. I had had a long day of travel – leaving Denver at 6:30 AM, free bus – in the snow – to the train station, $10 light rail to the airport, where the major problem was that the escalators up from the train platform to the terminal weren’t running because of the snow, and everyone had to cram into the elevators. My flight to Chicago Midway was scheduled to be 20 minutes late, but they changed their minds and actually got us off almost on time. I caught the bus from Midway to Madison, and it’s a looong ride – left Midway at 2:15, and arrived on campus at 6:50. I walked partway home, and then grabbed the city bus. To find that Mark had arrived about the same time after an equally long day – he’d finished packing the apartment the day before, and the movers were coming to load the truck, that he then drove to Wisconsin in the snow. And in between, the cleaners, his fave cleaning lady Ariana, that he had to say goodbye to. Mark pulled the truck into the driveway frontwards for Wednesday night, planning to back in in the morning, for unloading.
Snowy Thursday, Halloween morning, I got the snow shovels from the basement (where they’d been moved for garage construction), and went out and did the walk and the driveway. Then I had some work to do, and was up in the second floor at my computer in the little alcove that has a view right out the front window to the street. Mark had carefully planned to move on a Thursday, thinking it’d be easier to maneuver the truck because there’s no parking on our street, but there was a car parked illegally, plus trash trucks and snow plows and wet heavy snow falling – everything you could think of to get in his way. I closed the blinds so I wouldn’t be watching as he backed in, so as not to jinx the operation.
But it got jinxed anyways. The new fill next to the driveway, where the cement mixer trench used to be, was so soft that when I stepped on it, I went in over the top of my (rubber, thank God) boot. So of course the truck got stuck. But, we got everything unloaded and Mark only fell once inside the truck due to the crooked angle it’s stuck self was at.
And next morning, he called UHaul, and they got the truck un-stuck in about 10 minutes. So more good news, save for the muddy mess surrounding the new garage.
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But it will all work out, we’re talking to the garage contractor and the landscapers, although I’m kinda worried about how much this is all going to cost me.
And I even carved one of my pumpkins, the one NOT in the snow pic, because I took it inside to get warm to carve. It wasn’t outside until almost 9:00 PM on Halloween but it was still there, and still there in the morning November 1.
