We finally took a day off (Sunday) from working around the house to help our friends Daniel and Monika move their daughter’s belongings back to their house.  Dan keeps up with the blog and knew about the new trailer purchase.  We were happy to be able to help, because as you know – what goes around comes around.

We were able to make quick work out of all the stuff that needed to be moved, the trailer ramp made loading easy.

While we were on the way back to Dan and Monika’s house with the trailer loaded, we stopped by the house of our mutual friend’s – John and Angelika.  The Christmas lights and decorations are looking good Angelika 🙂

We wanted to drop off a Coca-Cola Cooler that we gave them.  It’s much more satisfying to give some of our things to friends or family as opposed to selling them at greatly reduced prices or even taking things to Goodwill or ARC Thrift Stores.  We already gave John and Angelika our “retro” Jukebox that Stilla got for her birthday several years ago.  At least it’s in good hands and getting some use instead of being put in storage.

While stopped at John and Angelika’s house – I used the opportunity to install the load-leveling hitch that I just got in from Amazon.com.  Their little cul-de-sac is much more level than the one at our house, and it’s important to do the installation on level ground.  With John and Dan’s help, we did some measuring and got the hitch installed at the correct height.  The load-leveling bars take a lot of weight off the hitch ball and distributes it more evenly, I’ve heard it described as functioning in a manner similar to a wheelbarrow.

After we unloaded the trailer, Dan and Monika treated us to lunch at Applebee’s.  Thanks again Dan and Monika!

We visited for a while back at Dan and Monika’s beautiful home and admired their awesome deck while our little dog “Coach” checked out the back yard and probably left his “calling card” somewhere… sorry about that Dan 🙂

Dan and I also made tentative plans.  If the timing is right, Dan offered to help me drive our stuff down to storage in Casa Grande.  With his help, we could drive straight there, drop off a load, maybe spend the night and then get right back in record time.  Dan is a professional truck driver by profession, (after his illustrious Army Career), so he’s no stranger to driving long distances.  We’ll have to see if the timing works out…

After chatting for a while and saying our goodbye’s, we drove straight back to the Urban Escape Vehicle which is safely parked at the Elks Lodge overlooking the pool that is (sadly) closed for the season.  This is the first day in – what seems like ages – that we didn’t spend the day at the house cleaning or painting something.

It was a good day off 🙂