Only to John would this happen....

So yesterday afternoon I emailed john a listing I saw on our local web site for Rancho Murieta, Upright Piano for $125. He called and left a message, well last night I had to work in the snack bar at baseball and apparently while I was gone he went and looked at the piano, took one look at it, said yes & paid the guy. They arranged that they would try to move it later last night or today. Well John came home called some piano moving companies and found out it would cost about $400 -$500 to move this piano 2 blocks.

If you know John, you know what I am going to say, he thought he could figure this all out and make it work! No he did not try to move this 500 pound piano himself. First he called Dante who was out but who had a piano dolly in his garage (really, who knew there was such a thing and that Dante would just happen to have one lying around). Next he called our Realtor who has two teenage boys 17 &18 to see if they were free at 9:00 on a Friday night. Yep they were so John, these two boys and the original owner of the piano along with Dante's piano dolly went to work. The first was getting it out of the first house which had 3 steps down to the walkway. They did that then being so smart they decided that instead of lifting into John's truck they would just push it home! Yes, down Murieta Parkway at 10:00 now comes the Piano in the dark, cars were swerving, a golf cart almost ran them over and a few people even stopped to offer help. Well these guys were going to move the piano themselves, but... eventually someone realized they smelled smoke, I am sure you are wondering what that is from - the wheels on the piano dally melted as they were being pushed up the street. So John sent one of the boys to get his truck to load it up in, then while they waited the other boy started a mini concert in the street until the truck came, by 10:30 the piano was in our house and can I just tell you how beautiful it is!

Everyone is so excited about it, Charlie keeps asking when he will get to take lessons. I will post a picture soon but stay tuned for piano recital invitations....