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Just the crap I've been up to - LOL
sKePTiKal:
No, it's not really a list. But it started with one! :LOL:
For three months, I've pretty much had contractors here 4 days out of 7. We're not done yet - but it's getting CLOSE. All the windows and new doors are in; there's some trim yet to complete. The front door mechanicals - the latching system - was screwed up at the factory. So it's boarded, to keep it shut until the new door can arrive. That's not till the last week of the month. :grumpy: My front porch is my second living room. I have to walk around - through raindrops sometimes - to get to my covered porch right now. Inconvenient; not what I wanted... but not permanent, either. All in due time.
Contractors have moved on to upgrading the deck railings (they can finish trim in the rain) while the sun is kinda shining. Painters are sealing up the old logs, the new wood and slightly changing the colors. It's gonna look nice. I'm doing the poly on the inside of the windows - it raw pine; and have stained the lower bits of new wood in the living room. The upper part of that former big wall of windows... can just be what it is. It'll age. LOL.
Wood insert & new woodstove are installed. I have another bat in the firebox of the woodstove downstairs. I'm waiting till he's good & dead, before removing him.
I got up way too early this morning, because the arborists were here to take down about 8 trees before 7:30 am. They were done by 10 - brush chipped; logs sawn to size and stacked. Very impressive. So, assuming I can get my buddy to get HIS buddy with the bobcat to get my shed location squared away - I can call Texas and tell 'em to send my barn & shed on the truck up to my area.
Well company is going to inspect the submersible pump on Monday. Electrician coming Friday to replace GFI outlet outside that's exposed to weather. Then I just have to deal with ordering wood (most of what was cut today is NEXT YEAR'S wood; it has to dry)... deal with the water quality in the studio... and move a bunch of stuff into the new buildings so I can work in the garage this winter! LOL.
You know it's hard to find 63" long curtains now a days? I need to try searching again. (THIS is why I sew and need to get my studio set up.)
Hopalong:
Your to-do, am-doing, gonna-do, planning-to-do lists absolutely flippin' amaze me, PR.
It's an exhilarating Action Journal!
:)
Hops
lighter:
Wowsers, Amber. That's quite a list.
Sorry about your front porch, but hey.....
::whispering::
You have a really great porch!
I'm so channeling lovely outdoor space in this cool weather. I took all the light things off my back porch, and it's still in my keeping room, which means I have two messed up spaces right now. I'm ready to have my porch back too.
Yesterday my back went out so I did some research on creating a moss yard. I found a local gal who has a moss nursery, and she had a site consult cancellation that fit my schedule. All the news is good, basically, but I'll post the detes on another thread.
I'm glad you're getting your porch back soon. The fall is such a lovely time to enjoy it, IMO: )
What are you doing with all the milled wood? Are you using it for the shed?
Lighter
sKePTiKal:
Firewood, Lighter - I have two new woodstoves to break in before peak heating season.
I MOSTLY have my porch back now. The painters are done here and the deck railing fence is up. I just have to hike from the back of the house around the deck to the front now. LOL. And yet this morning, I STILL tried to open the front door. :shakes head: - that Pavlov sure knew what he was talking about!
I spent 11 hours in bed with the heating pad last night. Woke up somewhere in the middle to worry about various & sundry nonsense, and went back to sleep. Electrician was here - found an additional outlet to make safe - it's all done and we had a nice chat while he was working too. He totally is easy to be around - oozes that calm, it's all under control male energy. Not bad looking either - but he has a really sweet wife, too. (Just my luck!!)
Moving freshly cut to length logs after a crazy busy week was just about all my poor body could take. That wood needs to season - NEXT YEAR'S wood. I'll buy pre-split this year. So I talked myself out doing a single useful thing today, while I recharge the tank. I will get around to the list of things that's my part of these projects - soon enough. And I work fast too. So, I don't have to overdo, and can rest when I need to. A big huge list of important things got taken care of this summer - and we're real close to the finish line. There's more to go - but these were the essentials. The rest will happen at a more leisurely pace.
I'd like to get a massage, a haircut, new glasses and find a new dentist. In that order. And finish up the "little" projects I have hanging around, half finished... from this year's list. My arms hurt from moving the logs (in a good way) - the back is fine after supine application of heat. But it's clearly time to empty my brain of everything it's trying to file into "complete", "ongoing/WIP", and still yet to get done categories... and just embrace cabbage-head-hood. LOL.
Time for a sappy afternoon of chick flicks or an epic historical drama. Popcorn. Graze all day... and replenish the calories I've been burning.
lighter:
AmberL
I have to admit, I love splitting wood. Especially when I'm splitting it with people who're really good at splitting wood, like my brother and BIL, from Canada. I learn so much.... things go so well... I don't have to worry about watching someone put their hand in the wrong place over and over, etc. It's another form of walking meditation AND you get all those lovely stacks of wood to burn!
I didn't have time to split all the logs we had last Christmas, so left them under the shed roof to dry out all summer. The guys move the trees, and cut them, with heavy equipment. It drops right at the splitter so I don't have to worry about anything but splitting and stacking. I think BIL tried to teach me to handle the chainsaw last year, but I have too vague a recollection to trust myself without another lesson.
Next project at my father's is sealing the decka. I decided on the clear Flood product again. I hate researching it every 3 years or so, but it has to be done. I haven't found anything that impresses me more.
You sound really good, Amber. It's nice to read your updates: ) How is kitty doing?
Lighter
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