So DUHC had its third annual SkillShare this past Saturday. The basic idea: everyone gets together and swaps things they know how to do, from herbal first aid to tamale-making. Meaning, instead of reading Harry Potter, I was attending workshops on brewing beer at home, how to effectively facilitate meetings, and how to ride your bike in bad weather, among other things.
Larry, who is the DUHC volunteer who has graciously been my host this summer, also did a workshop called “Schlepping,” on moving heavy things easily/with less effort. While moving heavy objects may not normally be on the top of my to-do list, Larry’s enthusiasm for such things was actually pretty infectious and I thought I’d take a stab at schlepping – the object at hand in fact being Larry’s truck:
Exciting as it looks, we didn’t actually get the truck off the ground like that – the springs outdid us. Jared eventually moved it to the side just using a 2×4, though. And we did move a whole bunch of other things via levers, rollers, and even by lifting them onto blocks, sliding marbles underneath, and then moving them around on marbles.
I think I definitely earned the pint of coffee ice cream that kept me company for my all-night Harry Potter reading.
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