"an act of faith"

sometimes (no offense, parents), my parents get some rather hare-brained ideas. when they built their new house, they decided they wanted to put a hot tub on their balcony. so they had it reinforced, able to hold extra weight, and so on.

and then a few weeks ago they bought a hot tub - 600 lbs. the question, of course, is how does one lift a 600 pound hot tub up to a balcony. cranes were out of the questionb ecause this neighboord is set=up with walkways in front of the houses and alley/streets behind them, so no crane would be able to get to our hosue. instead, dad rented a cable hijack. the maximum weight of which was 640 lbs and was basically exactly the height of the balcony.

so ...

my parents talked musty and mike and our neighbor into helping out. dad explained the plan, and on we went!







my mom kept saying, "positive thoughts only! positive thoughts only!" and up and up and finally it was at the balcony.





and then over and done and it worked! none of us could even believe it. still can't believe it, really ... it was a joint effort, for sure.