Moving Renton to Selah

Thursday, May 27 was the day that Allied Van Lines was to move Janet's belongings from the storage facility in Renton to the house in Selah. The driver arrived almost 2 hours early and then suggested that we push the move back a few days due to the amount of mud present around the house. We rescheduled the move for Saturday morning, May 29.

Unfortunately, mud was still a major problem. The driver tried to get the truck close enough to the house to use a ramp between the truck and the front door, but the truck ended up stuck in the mud. Watching these three guys trying to free the truck was entertaining to say the least. At one point they tried to pull this moving van with 8300 pounds of load out of the mud with a pickup truck. We were sure we would be a witness to the axle being pulled right off the pickup. Fortunately they stopped before that happened. The guys ended up putting plywood and tarps down on the ground and they rolled the stuff into the house that way.


Joe is taking a break, sitting on one of the chairs we did not want to keep. He ended up taking the chair home.

With most of the furniture in the house, these are all the boxes we need to sort through to determine what we want to keep. The only problem left was the fact that there were no garage doors up yet, so we had no way of locking the contents up for safety. Our contractor came out in the afternoon and put plywood across the door openings. What a day.