Another Sunday

Unfortunately, there's more bad news than good this week. The office furniture arrived. Good news? Um, not exactly. Due to the weight and size of it, it was supposed to be shipped by freight (such as Land Air Express, etc, NOT UPS, FedEx, etc), and we'd opted for the free shipping, which was curbside delivery. Not a problem, we've a good commercial style dolly and had arranged for an extra pair of hands.....the furniture is real wood, prebuilt stuff (not the put together yourself chipboard, pressed board stuff), so the only "assembly" needing to be done is putting the legs on the desks. HOWEVER....it was shipped UPS! AND....it came a day early! My DH was able to get home to help the UPS guy (who expected to unload it into our house all by himself - UPS doesn't do curbside delivery, they do in house). It's a good thing DH was there.....I don't know how this guy would have been able to unload these boxes alone....some of them weighed 140 pounds!! He said he loaded them alone.....which may explain the next part of the story!

The furniture was in boxes clearly marked FURNITURE, FRAGILE, THIS SIDE UP on all sides. BUT....it had been crated up with luan style thin plywood.....all sides...the plywood was glued to the boxes and then they'd glued fiberboard corner pieces to that......the lettering was ALL covered...the UPS guy didn't even know it was furniture.....he sure didn't know it was fragile!! The crates looked fine - not a bit of damage to them....but when we got it all uncrated we discovered DAMAGE, DAMAGE, DAMAGE! Of the 10 pieces, not a one escaped damage, though 6 of them only have minor damage. Four pieces are broken beyond use.

We've notified the place we ordered it from....they're sending "touch up kits" to my house....when they arrive, I'm to call them and they'll send a professional furniture repair man here to fix the 6 pieces (and then I'll decide if I'm happy with the work). They've ordered replacements for the other 4 pieces - I so hope it's not going to take another 10 weeks for delivery!! They're filing a claim with UPS and are notifying the furniture manufacturer...they agree that it should NOT have been shipped UPS......and that it was crated improperly...the outside crates should have been marked and were not. I am sooooooo sad....this furniture is sooooo beautiful and we've waited sooooooooo long for it.

So, our office is all at 6's and 7's right now.....we have to work with half our office furniture for now....boy what a mess!! Of course, with the extra stuff here, just sitting still in crates awaiting a decision, space is at a premium as well!

Ed dropped his cordless work drill the other day......standing 8 feet off the ground on a ladder, it slipped out of his hand and went all the way to the cement covered ground below - SMASH!

So....having the opportunity to go "to the city" yesterday, we made it a multi purpose trip (as usual). I found the coffeemaker I wanted and had a $10 off coupon for it, too!! It's a Cuisinart On Demand.....I LOVE IT!! Ed bought a new drill (actually got a deal.....got a cordless drill, sawzall, light, 2 batteries and charger package for less than what just the drill would have cost him). We priced the other stuff we're going to need (when we get a truck...sigh). We got out to see my nephew in law and grand niece....my niece was working so didn't get to see her (missed you, B!!). Saw her mom and dad and another grand niece at her house...plus got over to my nephew's house and visited with him and his two boys (missed his DD......sorry, K).

We also went to the Sportsman's Show.....I'm not crazy about it, but Ed likes to go....we used to do it yearly, but hadn't been in about 4 years. I think there are lots less vendors there now.....more boats (canoes, kayaks) than there used to be and more turkey hunting stuff than other types of hunting.

By the time we got home around 9:30 pm, I was beat, but it was a good day.

Done Ramblin.