Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 39
23rd April 2020
We had a busy day ahead of us. We had a customer pick-up for two pieces and a delivery of another, plus collection of a bookcase that Kelli found last night.
We set aside Cameron’s dresser outside, and drove off to West Olive to deliver the cabinet.
There are many places that I now know from traveling to them often, but every now and then we take a road that is new. The address we were heading for was down a dirt road.
One minute the surface is normal for a road, the next you hit dirt, suddenly you are in a third world country, the only difference are the large factory farms lining the track.
Some of the houses look decent, but many are littered with dead vehicles and general rubbish. “No trespassing” signs are posted everywhere, but who in their right minds would want to go there, even the Coronavirus might have second thoughts about trying to infect anyone around there.
We dropped off the cabinet at a house that was in the early stages of becoming a rubbish dump, the lady didn’t show much excitement as we off-loaded the piece, but because she had paid for it, and she didn’t turn up her nose at it, must mean something.
Next stop was a drive to Dorr Township, it should be renamed Dull then it would match its appearance. Again we drove down a dirt road to collect a bookcase. We saw it outside the house as we approached, not the best example of any craftsmanship, I could tell by the quality of the nails holding it together.
Now we had to be creative to turn this turd into a desirable turd.
We got back home after stopping off to pick up some stain for the dining table, and an Impossible burger from Burger King, we were hungry, and it was better than eating the stuff under the car seats, just.
The lady arrived to collect the renovated entertainment centre. She was over the moon, excited by how it looked. We had advised her that she might need help to load it into her vehicle. So she brought her son along. I knew there would be a problem because he was so young and thin, when he turned, he disappeared, it was a case of “ now you see me, now you don’t”.
Obviously I lent my muscles to the loading, and suggested that we use her son as packing material to cushion it, and stop it falling over, not that he would add much padding, but I thought it was funny.
The garage is looking a bit empty, apart from another smaller entertainment centre that Kelli is just finishing, and the dining table that I am working on. I dragged out some project pieces that I might get a chance to finish, I blew the sawdust off, excited at the prospect of doing something interesting.
Another Lifetime to go 