…are all going to help.
The tank will get here between 9 and 3, we get Tim and Cheryl around 5, and we get it in, figure it out, and go to dinner…
All will be well! Patty and Mike are driving clear up here from the Tri Cities and driving back the same night, bless them, after helping us out.
And Tim has endured practically hourly e-mails each with a different battle plan…for days now!
Friends! Gotta love ’em!
Tim is to be commended for patience, although you already knew that 🙂
NW writers, unite! It’s great you can call on that type of support. Nice dinners all around, after that bit of wrangling. And Tiger Balm.
Especially friends who are willing to be paid in a meal a couple of glasses of wine. 🙂
If I lived in your area I’d be there to do a little lifting and give massages afterwards.
I don’t know if your geometry will allow it, but you’d be miles ahead if you managed to get the tank delivered on the upper level using the rockery as a loading dock. Also, on one occasion, I used an appliance dolly more as a skid – laid down on its back pulling ropes tied to the handles when I had to get a freezer up basement stairs that were so steep that the distance between the steps and the ceiling was only about 4 feet. Even with the door off, the freezer took up about 3/4 of the passage.
We’d like it if they could do that. It’d be better than leaving it on the street level gravel. Question is whether they can even get their lifter over the curb to try.
Wonderful salads!!
Be careful and good luck getting it all done!
You’re not kidding.
The leg was so bad yesterday, I had to put a lot of weight on that cane. Advil and pain patches didn’t touch it, but Jane suggested a double dose of Aleve, and that began to make some headway: not that one’s better than the other, but Aleve and Advil handle different things, and this is an Aleve thing…I took two more this morning, and will taper back to one, the proper otc dose, this evening: from unable to touch the area without pain yesterday, and excruciating pain walking — I’ve had numerous dings, dents, and two bone breaks, and I put this pain up there toward the bone breaks— it has diminished to, yes, a pain in the butt.
I think I knew how I did it. I was filling those 30 gallon tubs, and lost count of gallons, so I simply dipped and moved (dip, pivot and pour, 2 gal at a time) all the water from one tub to a vacant one, and I was working bent over and lifting, which probably just royally stressed the right leg, which was my pivot point. Now and again I get delusions of being 25 and perfectly capable…
Then my real age asserts itself the next morning.
It ain’t OTC, but see if your Doc will prescribe Etodolac and give that a try. 😉 Work(ed/s) for me with my synovial cyst. 🙂
Well—I took a tumble on the pavement—not with the tank, thank goodness. But with the wrapping. Full-length sprawl forward on the asphalt…
The guy from Diamond set the load on the pavement, thirty feet from the stopsign. It’s garbage day, and we have trucks going every which way—and horrors, we don’t want to make a mistake. So Jane and I are parking ourselves near it, and just watching over it. Help is coming to move it, but they won’t be here til 5. We’re getting sunburned. But we have gotten some yard work done.
And the fall? Seems to have fixed my lower back, and the hip has stopped hurting—the question now being—what is going to hurt tomorrow or the day after.
We are taking pictures.
Well that was serendipitous, although with a left-hand thread to it. I hope whatever aches you accrue from the fall are lighter than the sciatica. Keep us posted about the Tank Adventures, and best wishes to the installation crew!
Palms and forearms most likely, maybe the shoulders, but Aleve should take care of most of it at the OTC dose.