The delivery of our stuff was simply insane.  I am not up to detailing it, so here are the highlights.

• They had a hard time with finding us on a map, despite my directions. It’s actually very straightforward, but we are quite isolated.  I did tell them, we are in the bush.
• They came with a full size semi trailer.  After stopping on the road and walking in, I told them they could go into the yard.  They would have broken tree branches, but I told them that was okay.  If they went into the yard, they potentially could have had a ramp right into our front door for an easy offload. They said they would look around and decide.
• They decided to go in front of the yard, by the small people gate, and that’s where they started pulling up, with spotters.
• While driving in, they hit the power line to the garage.  They broke the power pole by the garage, which is now leaning of the roof. The line got hung up on the truck.
• The driver blamed me for not telling him about the power line.  It was dark, but we have a yard light. The light is on the main power pole, which means the lines to the garage and house were in the light.  By driving to the small gate instead of the yard, they drove under the lowest point of the line.
• Unhooked, the only thing keeping the line off the ground was tree branches.
• They got stuck in a few inches of snow.
• The driver yelled at me because it way my fault, and he had been doing me a favour by coming out in the dark.
• Later, he came in and talked at my husband, demanding we call a tow truck, on our dime. If we didn’t, he said he would leave with our stuff.  My husband refused.
• After more than an hour, they started unloading. They called a tow truck. The driver ended up helping unload.
• We called Hydro. A guy came and cut electricity to the line and took it down. The pole is not theirs, so it is up to our end to get it repaired.
• Between the girls and I, the movers and the tow truck driver, there was 7 of us working on it.  The girls did much hauling of things upstairs.
• They were finally done around 11pm. They got here at about 7pm.
• The driver apologized.
• It took them about another half hour to get out of our driveway.
• The house is in chaos. But we slept on our own mattresses.

This is what the master bedroom looked like.  There was space on the floor for the mattress and that’s about it.

But our stuff is in.

Finally.

The Re-farmer