Another to do item off the list

Today the sprinkler system guy is suppose to come back to do the added on section, as well as get the sprinkler heads on in the area right in front of the house, with the shrubs. He said he'd be back in 2 weeks, so he's pretty close.

DH has a very old semi truck that he has kept for over 30 years (ie piece of junk, LOL) that he thinks "one day" he'll restore it (and then do what with it? LOL). Anyhow it's basically in 3 pieces. The cab is in his shop. The chassis part, which was cut in two, has been stored on a friends property since we moved. It's just been now that DH finally has room inside the shop to put it there. It's obviously not something we'd want sitting outside next to our house, and only having 2 acres (partially which is river bank) there's no where to put it, without it visible from everywhere. Back when we originally were making the moving plans friend had called DH up to see how it was going, at the time dh was trying to figure out how to move it and where to put it. He asked friend if he knew of any storage places in the area. It was friend who said you can just store it at my place. He has 14 acres and it would be way in back, where it's not noticeable. DH was like nooo, I can't do that to you. Friend insisted it was ok and he was coming over to our area to visit his parents and said, "I'll even bring a trailer and bring it back for you". So, we paid for his trip over and back and some rent for the trailer use. Over the years we have tried to "pay" friend for letting us keep it there. We'd always pay for dinners out, we bought them a heater for their garage and when we had our little dump trailer he used it frequently for his landscaping work.

But, that was a long time ago and DH has felt bad that our build took so long. Partly because we didn't build that first year after we moved here and then because when we did build it took twice as long as expected. Then DH just ran out of room in the shop. Finally, now that he was able to use up a good amount of the leftover lumber stored in our garage to build the shed,  he now had more room in the garage, and a good sized shed to put all the garden stuff in (that was all in the shop). He was able to move some things out of the shop to the garage, move the garden stuff out to the shed and shuffle a few things around and finally had room for this truck chassis to fit.  Yesterday he called up the local towing company and they went and picked it up from friends place and now it's back and inside his shop. He was expecting maybe like a $400-500 towing bill, but it was only $253, so that was decent.

After DH showed me where the chassis (covered with a tarp) had been stored at friends place, I don't feel quite so bad for having it there. It's back behind a berm area, so not visible from their house, and DH showed me a picture he took - the area is now full of other pieces of junk. I told DH I'll bet if you had just taken it out of there, without telling friend, it would have been months before they even realized it was gone, LOL. But, Dh feels much better having it out of there and one more thing checked off the list of things we needed to get done. Sad, that DH's shop is back to completely stuffed, but that's a whole other post......