Sunday, March 19, 2023

Moving a Hot tub!

 This morning it was 7 o'clock straight up when I looked at the time.  The brain games went quickly this morning, so I will have a smart day.😁

At 8 o'clock, I got a call from Kay wanting to know if I wanted to go with her to look at a hot tub that someone was selling.  Sure, I said, never dreaming what the day had in store.

We went to look and there was this huge 5 person hot tub full of water and ready to hop into.  Kay, loved it and told Jim and Linda, two retired Chicago police officers, we would buy it. 

Our plan was to take Kay's trailer full of wood to the dump tomorrow and come and get it.  When Kay called, Dean to make sure he would be available tomorrow to help, he wasn't able too.  But, he could at 2:30 today.

So, Lisa , myself and a neighbor, emptied the recently filled trailer to get it ready to haul a hot tub today.

I say, light her up!
We grabbed some boards, a 4X4 plywood, straps, piano dolly and a regular dolly and off we went around 3:30.

Just to let you know, moving a 500 pound hot tub is no fun.  It took us three hours to move this thing from their backyard out to the driveway and into the trailer.  Maybe 60 feet.




The crew was Kay, Dean, Lisa, Jim, Linda and their daughter's fiancé and me.  We managed to do it without anyone getting hurt, thank goodness.  Dean was the brains of the move and did an excellent job, getting the job done.  

I was so happy to get home.  Personally, the job completely wore me out.  Kay, made the whole thing worthwhile, by buying pizza for all of us.
Now, I'm watching TV, eating pizza with my good buddy, Yuma.  Soon, it will be bedtime so I can rest my weary bones.

Thanks for stopping by.

14 comments:

  1. Wow! That turned out to be quite a chore! I hope everyone's backs are still in one piece in the morning. The pizza looks amazing! Hope Yuma got a taste.

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    1. Yuma loves pizza! Everyone is sore this morning. We'll never buy a hot tub.

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  2. Well that was an interesting day. Pizza makes everything better.

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    1. It sure helped. I was too tired to make dinner.

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  3. Sounds like an interesting day. Hope that pizza was really, really good and you can move in the morning.

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    1. I am definitely sore this morning. Getting too old for this.

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  4. Not an easy thing to move. Glad no one got hurt.

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    1. Me too! It was back breaking work. Luckily, we had enough help to get it out of there.

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  5. Probably not what you're expecting to do when you woke up in the morning. At least you got it done and it's in one piece and everyone survived the moving! Nice reward though!

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    1. I was surprised it withstood the mo r without falling apart. Didn't exactly have the right equipment for the job.

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  6. What a day. I hope you enjoyed the pizza. If you get lucky maybe you will get a soak in the hot tub before you leave.

    Deb

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    1. I hope I'm out of hear before they pull it off the trailer.😁

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  7. Everyone should move a hot tub once in their life because they will never EVER do it again. Pizza is a nice reward!!

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    1. You are so right, Nancy! Never again. Will take days to recover.

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