Fun Times Moving
Welcome to my blog on my life! This is the first post, and most will probably be just as random as this one.
I had decided to help my friend move some of her furniture. The funny thing was that I had 3 hours of sleep the night before, with a 45 min to 1 hour nap. My friend moving also had 3 hours of sleep the night before – we were at the same restaurant until 5:30AM.
I’m going to skip all the boring details of us eating and so on. The interesting part of the day was trying to move her bed to the third story of a townhouse. We got her mattress up with a little push and shove, no big deal.
While we were doing this, I had decided to make it a little bit more fun. We grabbed the mattress and sprinted across the road in a very funny fashion. We also took the foundation (box spring) and ran across the road army style. I’m hoping the cars got a good laugh.
Anyway, we decided to try to shove the foundation up the stairs. After 10 or so minutes, we decided it wasn’t possible. We had already ripped the bottom cloth (unimportant) and gotten some black marks on the wall. That’s when I decided to get creative.
I asked Heather (the one moving) if she had some rope. She didn’t, but our other friend, Catrina, did. I asked her to get it so we could see the length. Heather asked me what I was planning.
I told her that I planned on using the balcony to hoist her foundation up. She was like “not happening!” I talked a little more, so she went up to check if it was possible, and it was. She said that there was no railing that I could use though, so I’d be standing over the edge of the building. I told her fine by me!
So Catrina returend with two old and pretty frayed ropes. I, unfortunately, only remembered part of the knots I learned over a year ago for Sea Scouts (I never actually used them). I did remember one of the strongest knots’ the bowline. I also remembered one of the knots to combined to ropes together (I can’t even remember the type of knot!) So, I combined the ropes, and tied a bowline around the mattress.
I went up to the balcony, two floors up. I jumped the railing and got to the roof. Heather threw the rope up, and phew! There was plenty to spare. I decided to tie the rope to the railing about. Not entirely sure why. I wasn’t tied to it, and if the mattress slipped, it would still hit the ground, but hey, looked good!
Catrina, who is also a marine and has had firefighter training, was going to help me pull up the mattress. So we pulled and it started scraping and bending the gutter. That wasn’t good. So I had her stop for a second. I decided to concentrate on hold the rope out of the gutter (I had to lean a little bit over the edge). She started pulling again, and boy did she pull it up fast. I was also pulling, but had more strength going into making sure the rope neither frayed itself on the gutter nor bent the gutter in. As soon as the mattress left the ground, Heather came running up from below. We got it up so fast that by the time she got up to the balcony, we had the foundation on the roof!
Success! That completely made the whole moving of that day worth it.
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