It just gets worse.
04 August 2010 | Still stuck in Aurora
Sunny and warm.
If you read my last post, you have read about our trials and tribulations on our trim. It's journey around the US. Well, it finally after 5+ weeks showed up Monday morning. The driver called for directions and arrived about 10:00. He took his fork lift off the back of the truck, lifted the trim and carefully set in at the end of the driveway. As he put the lift back on the truck, we unwrapped and cut the straps that bundled the nice pile of trim. As Tracy turned over the first board, I hear"OH NO!!!". As we turned over the boards, we found that they had shipped us the wrong boards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had ordered smooth faced boards so they would match what we already had on the house so we wouldn't have to replace all the boards as many were just fine. These boards had a wood grain face!!!! Right size boards(still short 3 boards)but wrong face. I called Lowe's and spoke to Jim at the order desk. He told me to just have the driver take the boards back and he would start making calls. So off came the forklift and back the boards went. I got a call from Jim a few minutes later telling me that the distributor wanted to know what the boards had labeled on the back, so he had to wait till they got back to Lowe's so he could get that info. With that project now on hold, we took off on errands around town.
We headed for Target and Office Max as they were having a sale on school supplies. We are getting lots of these supplies to give out to kids as we sail to many of the back road towns along Mexico's coast. Many of these towns have very little for the kids and every little bit helps. They had toy trucks and lots of small toys to give out as well as pencils, pens, tablets, erasers and more at great prices so we loaded up. We've seen schools that have dirt floors and some that lost their roofs during last years hurricane. We already carry 400 pairs of reading glasses to give away so we are getting closer to having lots of things aboard to help them out.
We headed for West Marine to pick up more epoxy to seal and fix the poor rudder on Sloop to Nuts. It's taking lots more than we had thought. This time I bought cans of the stuff that I'll have to mix and spread around the wood.
Tuesday came and went with not much information from Lowe's as they are working with the distributor to see where they can get the right boards. The did admit that they had indeed screwed it up and loaded the wrong stuff. With luck, we will hear today as to when we may get the boards.
Stay tuned as the saga continues.