We did more hauling of boxes from the apartment to the house. All of the book boxes and nearly all other boxes have now been moved. There are still quite a few items back at the apartment, however. These will need to be placed into boxes and moved over the next few days.
Today I decided to find out once and for all if our pickup, standing at 6-1/2 feet, fits through the garage door opening. I took the antenna off (because that makes it too tall) and pulled in slowly. I called on Elise to watch to make sure the roof remained clear of the door as well as the hinge. Everything was okay until the rear wheels came to the edge of the garage floor concrete slab.
The garage floor is about 2 inches above the ground. When I tried to slowly pull forward, the rear wheels just spun. The wood molding for pouring the slab is still in place, and the wheels just splintered and broke chunks off of the wood. I had to place the transmission into 4WD to be able to pull forward. It looks like I'm going to have to build a ramp up into the garage.
Anyway, the pickup did make it all the way in. So it gets to sleep there tonight. This is actually the first time that it gets to permanently make a home inside a garage. There was one other time, when we went on vacation a few years ago, that it saw the inside of a garage for a few days.
We've had dry weather and sun since Wednesday. The forecast for the next week still looks pretty good with just occasional chances of rain. The next weekend, however, looks like it might end up being quite wet. At least the kids should be enjoying the dry weather at camp.
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