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are many, is her ability to solve phone, ready to head home problems and get things done. after two hours of tent assem- As I was stewing in frustra- blage, when my mom replied: tion, I saw her looking back “Where you going? We gotta
Being the good daughter I am (insert eye roll here), I drove to her house after work to get it done, thinking I could set this thing up no problem.
and forth from the tent to the side of the house. She locked eyes with me, held her arms out and did a slow little shim- my with her shoulders. I burst out laughing.
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Because I’ m guilty of not fully paying attention when she’s talking to me, I misun- derstood. I thought she was talking about those pop-up tents to sleep in. What she re- ally meant by “tent” was the 10-by-12-foot kind that cov- ers the campsite’s common area, kitchen space and food storage. Imagine my surprise when I opened the gate and saw long metal poles and cor- ner pieces strewn about. Not wanting to admit I misunder- stood, I jumped in and started assembling.
“You can’t be serious,” I said between heaving breaths. “That’s going to take forever.”
“Now we need to move it over there,” my mom said, in- dicating a spot 8 feet away near the side of the house.
OK, I thought, now it’s surely over. Relief rushed over me, as I grabbed my keys and
She was serious. We both took a front tent leg and moved it about an inch, then walked to the back legs to move them an inch — the entire time laugh- ing so hard that I had to step away a handful of times to catch my breath. What felt like days later, the tent was where it needed to be. The hard part was over.
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Putting together the frame and securing the tarp with bun- gee cords was the easy part. Getting the legs in was slight- ly more difficult, since there were only two of us and the darn thing is heavy! The hard part was over, or so I thought.
The act of transporting the blocks and getting the tent into said blocks is a story for anoth- er column, but we got it done, thanks to my mom’s neighbor who came home just in time.
Then, Dorette Luke shared how she upcycled her own mother’s clothes. “In fash- ion, everything comes around eventually,” she says.
“Now, we need to get it onto the cinder blocks,” my mom said. “They’re in my car.”
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We took a corner diago- nal from one other and lift- ed. It didn’t budge. We then tried each grabbing a leg and pulling/dragging it across the concrete, but the legs began bending in weird ways. That method was out, too. Time to reassess.
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