So if you've read any of the first posts in this journey, you know that the barge has played a huge part in our story. Between our grocery order and household goods we've had a lot of our lives tied to the barge arrival. The barge was due on August 1st, but didn't get here until the 15th. As you know, this delay did cause us to run out of life and death items (like coffee and toilet paper). However, the day it came we watched it arrive from our front window. It was like seeing Santa and his reindeer swoop into town. And then we got the call. They had our groceries, or our household goods...you see we got two phone calls saying two different things. 
What the hey, didn't matter, something was here. I was at work, but Husband was home to receive our goodies. We live on the top floor of our building so getting all of those boxes up the stairs is no small feat. The delivery guys had a great system. They made their own fire brigade and moved everything up the stairs in short order. So when I came home most of the work had been done.
SWEET! It was the household goods, which meant we finally had the piano...I'd missed the sound of music in the house. We also had the rest of the stuff that makes a house a home, some pictures, pots and pans, silverware, shampoo, soap, you know minor stuff that means a lot in the long run. This was about 10 days ago and we've almost got all of those boxes unpacked. Since then we've been waiting for the delivery of the grocery order. We know it's here (it's only this one barge; it has everything on it (we found that out when we loaded stuff in June). Have I mentioned that Husband is going out of town for the next three weeks? So I'd been hoping he'd be here when the groceries were delivered to help out a little. Yesterday it became clear that wasn't happening since his flight was due out this morning. I drove him to the airport (yeah, that would be less than 5 minutes away). I was home for less than 10 minutes when the phone rang.
"Hello, Barge guy here. Are you ready for your groceries?" What, are these guys staking out the house? Were they just waiting for Husband to leave so they could have a good laugh while I got buried under the boxes of groceries? How DID they time it this way?
3 comments:
What made the barge late? Weather? Besides dog food, what groceries did you barge ahead.
I admire the idea of the piano going to Barrow! Is it one you can leave up there when you retire? (Or will you retire there!)?
I look forward to seeing more pictures of the scene, there.
I sometimes miss Alaska. I never got to Barrow, though.
Mauri
I kinda think the arrival date of the barge is like most things...it gets here when it gets here and the date published is an "estimate". Also it went to Wainwright before coming to Barrow.
And the piano is a digital piano. We hope to sell it when we leave here. I'm not thinking we'll retire here. I'm pretty sure I'll be ready for warm weather at that point!
Yes, I'll bet the barge guys WERE watching! The girls must be happy with their pallet of Iams!
Debb
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