Once Jill and I decided that we were going to sell most everything and move into our Motorhome, we chose just a few items that we really loved or had some significance to it to keep in storage. We rented a 10 x 10 which at the time was almost too small, but since, as we have grown to love our decision, has become more and more empty as we have sold the remainder to finance ideas for the new home.
One item that I refused to sell is a red leather chair and ottoman that I paid an incredible amount of money for. We couldn’t sell it for even close to what we paid for it. Anyway, Jill loves that chair as do I. I’ll never forget her face when I took her to Haverty’s and bought it a couple of years ago.
Anyway, once she pulled the couch out of the MH, I told her that the red leather chair had to come with us and we both agreed it was a great idea.
One problem however was that when we made this decision, we also traded in our BMW and pickup truck for a new BMW so we couldn’t carry much of anything, anywhere.
Picture if you will my BMW X4 with the hatchback up and a red leather chair half hanging out the back as I traveled the 35 miles to our park. It was raining on and off, and I was incredibly worried about backsplash on the chair and in my car. I truly looked like that guy who didn’t have a truck trying to move a piece of furniture across town. ;)) Its not usually BMW’s though that you see doing this. I just smiled and waved at everyone!
Ok, so anyone who has an MH knows that the door is really narrow, right?
Its only about 24 inches wide. I got the chair to the front door, Jill came out and assisted me as we tried to get the 26 inch deep chair into a 24 inch opening.
I was about to have to take it back 35 miles to the storage if we didn’t figure out something quickly. It was about to rain, and I had nowhere to put it.
Jill flipped it over in the grass and immediately began to take the legs off. Ahhhh This would work!! She got 3 off, and there was a major problem with the 4th. Somehow, the bolt had been welded to the nut on the inside of the leg and we had no way to get it off. So there we were, in the grass outside the MH, sweat running down our faces, arms tired from trying to get this stupid bolt out, and rain was about to start. That beautiful leather chair was upside-down in the grass getting dirty and wet from all the sweat. 3 legs were off, and the 4th was literally by that time taking a beating. I was jumping up and down on it. Jill was trying to cut the bolt with a hack saw, I was beating it with a hammer, and the whole time I was just heartbroken that we were tearing this beautiful chair up. I could have at least gotten 800.00 for it. Now it’s not worth 300.00 It was trashed.
The leg finally came off. I was sick. It was now up to Jill to fix it, because not only is she Smokin Hot, but she is an incredible carpenter and yard guy. She has saved us THOUSANDS over the years taking care of stuff like this.
We got what was left of the chair into the door and up into the MH. It was beautiful!! It just didn’t have any legs and appeared to be a chair for a small family. Or Children. Of course, Jill went to The Walmarts!!
When she got home, she came in with a big smile on her face. She had found new legs for the chair, new bolts to install the legs, and stain to stain the new legs to make them match. I laughed and said, “Yup, if anyone can do it you
can!”
Today, Tuesday, she turned the chair and ottoman over, put the new bolts in and the new legs on, having already stained them, and tightened them down and turned the chair over. ‘DONE” She proclaimed. What an amazing wife. She did it, and it looks wonderful!!
