Thursday, March 11, 2021

The Sarcophagus

It arrived without warning yesterday... a huge box. 

How the DHL delivery guy managed, I don't know.  Maybe he or she had a dolly.  

It was the second part of Cousin Kathie's shipment from the pottery kilns in Morocco.  She took a trip there early in 2020 and barely, just barely, made it back before the pandemic travel restrictions shut down trans-Atlantic travel.  

Opening up the first (much smaller) shipment last week taught us an important lesson:  open outside.  The bits of fabric covering and Styrofoam that are released during unpacking were really a mess to clean up. 

Anyhow, with this monster package, I now know how Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter felt when they opened King Tut's tomb. 

We moved all the material into the garage where Kathie could sort and inspect everything.  Then we rewrapped the lot, loaded it into her Nissan Cube, and sent her off to her storage locker, where it would remain for a good while until she and Blake build a new house. 



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