Moving

The week the bug breaks down (see Nuts &Bolts post), I have to get the house all packed up to move. We did move quite a bit of stuff out of the house when we were getting it ready to sell, to de-personalize it and make it look more put together, and Hubby took most of his stuff to Des Moines, but there was still a lot to do.  We borrowed a trailer from a friend/the church & getting it loaded & pulled to Des Moines & unloaded all went smoothly.  It was on the way back from DM that we had problems.

My sister-in-law ran the DM half marathon in DM on sunday morning, so my brother pulled the trailer for me to & from DM.  On the way home, about 30 miles from DM, brother-B exits to get fuel, and notices that the fender on the passenger side of the trailer is missing.  We get out & look and one tire had lost most of it's rubber, and the other tire (on the same side) looked like it was about to start.

It was about 6:30 on a sunday night so all the tire shops are closed, and the town we stopped to get fuel at is tiny.  Brother-b starts making phone calls to try & figure out how to get the tires fixed.  I'm in the truck with my niece & nephew (5&3) who woke up when we stopped.  They've had a busy weekend and are bored & cranky, not a good combination.  And their mom ran a half marathon earlier, so she was tired too.

BrotherB's dad saves the day this time.  He pulled trailer tires off of a trailer sitting at his house & brings them out to us, and Brother-B gets the tires switched out.  The amazing this is brother-b's dad found the fender from the trailer on the side of the interstate & was able to stop & get it.  It's not in the best of shape, but since brother-b likes to weld & all that fun stuff, he might be able to straighten it out. It's now about 8:30 & we're on the road again.  Yay!  This is why it's no fun to borrow things.

I feel very fortunate that brother-b & family were all very gracious about what happened.  It's not like it was my fault the trailer tires went out, but all things considered, they were very patient with fixing it.