Old and Narrow

Hello,

Because the stairs to the basement, in Sarah and Stephen’s DC row house, were a bit shallow the appointed couch would not go down instead it had to go in the living room on the main floor. The smaller couch went to the basement. Lexi’s tall dresser could not make the turn to go upstairs so it when to the downstairs bedroom.
The large looking house shrunk rapidly as more furniture, more boxes, and more curios kept coming in the door.

In the afternoon Sarah and Stephen left to get the shipment from Geneva. They had hired two guys to help with the truck loading and unloading. Unfortunately the movers had a flat tire so they had almost loaded the truck without help. There was hardly an inch to spare by the time the load was on. They learned that the movers were deaf. As Stephen said, “How can you tell the guy on the other end of the load that you need to stop if your hands are seriously occupied?”

Somehow these guys managed to unload very quickly. There were a lot of hand signals. We might tap them on the shoulder to get their attention and use body language. Because of the signing time that they do with Lexi they were able to ask if they needed more water to drink and to say thank you. Clapping and thumbs up worked too. These two guys helped do the impossible by getting the queen sized box springs to the second floor. One of them stood on the ground and passed it up to his partner standing on the porch railing who in turn passed it up to Sarah and Stephen standing on the balcony above. It was exciting to watch. The mattress was bendable enough to be persuaded to go up the small narrow turn in the stairway.

Finally all things were in the house except for a few things back in the apartment.

Paula