Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Yesterday, the movers arrived at 8am instead of the 1pm my dad expected. It turns out that it was my dad who misread the email. My dad did not have the time to prepare he thought he had. He was rushed. It took the three movers about three hours to fill their truck, 45 minutes to get it to the new house and over an hour to unload it into the garage. Since it was still early afternoon, we planned to make another load to pick up what did not fit in the filled truck. Me and my dad were inside when the truck started going back home. When we came back, they were badly stuck. The road to the house is very steep. It goes straight to the St-Lawrence River and the house's garage is to the right of that road. The truck went head first towards the river, past the garage and backed up towards the garage. But as he moved away from the garage, instead of turning right and going up the road backwards (the reverse of what he did to get down), he turned left, hoping to go head first to the top of the road. He got badly stuck. They spent an hour and a half trying to get unstuck. The tires were above the ditch between the road and the garage. They were shovelling the rock under the step at the back of the truck (it was keeping the wheels up, preventing them from having any traction). In the end, the guy doing the stone around the fireplaces helped us by pulling the truck with his pick-up. We did not have time for a second load. We will do that next week. That will give my dad time to move the stuff in the sheds outside closer to the house (one shed is on the other side of the river in our backyard). Bonus : My uncle (a retired mechanic) changed the tires on our 2011 Ford Escape and noticed a huge hole above one of the rear wheels. Also, the relays we installed for the trailer lights no longer work... Yay.