When the girls were rearranging the shed to make more room, they found the radio/record player console that was a figure in the living room for decades. Sadly, it no longer works.
Looking inside, there were several records. A couple of 78s and a couple of 45s. I had to rescue them!
Looking at one of the 45s, I started to laugh and sing “Who Stole the Keeshka?”
They thought I was kidding. Continue reading
As chaotic as things are, we’re settling into a bit of a routine. Mornings, the heating of water for washing begins. My past habit of staying up to the wee hours and getting up at around 10am has changed to going to bed before midnight *gasp* and getting up earlier. It takes most of the morning to heat enough water to wash up not only ourselves, but any dishes and stuff that needs doing. No point in heating all that water again in the evening, just to do dishes.
In the morning, someone goes to feed the outside cats and get them some warm water. A warm water refill gets done again, later in the day, when what we gave them earlier is frozen.
Packing my parents’ stuff, cleaning shelves, unpacking our own stuff, then finding somewhere to put it, happens when we can. I have been getting a fair bit of it done while heating water and stuff. Usually it starts with, “I should make breakfast, but I could really use… ” and then I end up going through several boxes to find an item, get distracted and do something else, get distracted and finish another thing… then, eventually, I remember to go back and actually make breakfast.
Green tea with chamomile, in my footed cup, all freshly unpacked!
We’re tea drinkers in general, but since the move, tea is ever-present. Even when I was just coming out to stay a short while (usually for something funeral related), and I stayed at the farm, the kettle seemed to always be on. We’re drinking more tea now than we did even just before the move, when the water at the co-op started tasting worse and worse. We have since found and unpacked our tea supplies – we have a LOT of tea and tea supplies! – so the variety is being enjoyed often.
Loading packed boxes into the van and taking them to the shed has had a bit of a stall. The van is currently full of stuff for the land fill.
Now there’s a new habit we’re going to have to get into. Regular trips to the dump. Continue reading
The hard work the girls have done to pain the upstairs has hit an unexpected snag.
And it’s because of our lack of hot water.
At least partly.
This house was very, very dry. Suck the moisture out of your flesh, skin cracking, dry.
Then the hot water tank died.
Working more on the master bedroom, emptying the shelf that used to be part of a store. It was jammed full, but I am close to getting it done.
Three of these are books and magazines. Does not count the one box of books that will not go into storage. I expect to pack at least two, maybe three, more boxes of books.
All but one of these boxes is from that shelf. This is on top of the 5 or so big bags of linens, etc. I packed from this room.
Why is this here?
I also found mirror 56, tucked into a box of utility hooks.
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The girls have been working hard to get the upstairs ready. Tonight, they decided to start painting!
The East and West walls, plus the ceilings, will be this grey green. The North and South walls will be in a red.
Hard to believe these walls were washed with TSP.
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Today, I started on the master bedroom.
Wow.
I focused first on the “linen” closet. There was also a row of shelves with cloths I wanted to empty.
Part way through, as I pulled items down from higher in the closet, I was perplexed by the sound if things hitting the carpet, like rain. I eventually clued in that it was mouse shit.
Joy. I guess I should have been wearing mask and gloves.
I remembered to get the mail before the post office closed at noon (but only on Wednesdays). A dear friend sent me a package that arrived today.
Sweetheart that she is, she included treats for the cats.
I loooooove my piece of wood!
Mama loves her honeysuckle wood! Lol Continue reading
Today’s big job; we were able to clear half the living room and start shampooing the green shag carpet.
When I was a teen, after several hot hours throwing bales, I would come into the cool of the house and lie on the rug. It was like lying on grass. Except not in the sun and no bugs.
Only the sun part applies now.
While taking down the mirrors, we had to vacuum the back of one to remove a spider and years of webs. Then we had to vacuum the webs and dust off the walls.
Then most of the nails were removed.
The new tool kit is already much appreciated.
Once things are dry, we will move most of the furniture and tv to the other half and finish shampooing the carpet tomorrow.
Which is when the company is coming in to set up our internet. Let’s see if our second attempt at getting internet will work.
Then we won’t have to worry about finding that sweet spot with enough cell phone signal to post things.
On the window sill.
With the phone upright.
Not being touched by human hands.
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Traditionally, today is our first day of the Christmas season. We would start decorating the house and put up the tree.
All of which are in storage right now.
Theoretically, we could harvest a live tree from around the property, but there are enough fire hazards here, already. Continue reading
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