Friday, April 20, 2007

The Big Slide



Two weekends ago, we decided to clean out the old storage shed... the one that was loaded with boxes from our previous garage that hadn't been unpacked since we moved in over a year ago. Anyway, in the process of deciding what would stay (basically tools, tools, and more tools), what would be given away (or sold), and what would go in the trash, we wondered if we could finally move the shed. You see, the antique shop owner who rented our home in the 90's re-located the shed to the center of the yard at an angle so that antiques could be displayed inside the shed. Well, with my visions of a cottage garden in the backyard, the shed being in the center of the space didn't work.

So, we decided to take a try at moving the shed. Gary bought a rope, braced the corners of the shed, attached the rope to his truck with a knot using his handy boy scout skills (although I don't think he was ever a boy scout), and pulled. And pulled. And pulled. You should've seen Camryn and I jumping up and down and screaming whenever the building first started to move. Throughout the three-hour process of pulling, we must've stopped twenty or more times. You see, we would hear a loud "crunchhhhhh," and I would yell at Gary to stop. We then had to re-brace the corners. But as you can see from the pictures, we successfully moved the shed about 20 feet. We spent the next weekend working on my dream garden. More pictures to come soon.

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