Carting Lumber all Around the City

For our exhibit that is opening next Thursday I am on the threshold team, and we are constructing an open framework for people to hang their work on.  It also functions to split up the gallery space.  We ran out of lumber last night, and this morning we put up all the wood frames we had made, and found out we needed 49 more 2X4's to finish our project.  We then went to Home Depot to get the lumber, and borrowed a cart and took it 6 blocks back to our studio space.  We learned that we could not use the freight elevator to get it to our studio because of the upcoming holiday and that no one was in our building who could run it.  So here we were stuck in the middle of Manhattan with a cart full of lumber and no place to store it!  One of our staff members asked our summer housing director of the townhouse where we are living if we could store it in the basement.  He was our life saver, and let us store it there.  We then had to take the cart 8 more blocks to our house and the whole excursion took about 3.5 hours.  So now we can construct the rest of the structures in our small backyard, and won't be able to get them up until Monday morning.  The show will still come off, but we will be pulling some late nights next week now.