Wednesday, September 9

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

More sunny weather. This is likely the most pleasant season of the year. No mosquitoes, sunny and warm without being hot, and cool nights.

We got River loaded in the trailer after quite a long process, but I would rather take my time, let him back out if he needs to, and not bully him. Once he was in, he was fine and not panicked.

I'm grateful for having our own truck and trailer, and for River FINALLY loading.

We did go back to the regular barn. For now, I think it is a better fit because of the social life and the lessons, but if the hay irritates his heaves I may need to look at the other barn and see if I can find someone to come out and coach me. If the other place had a good coach, it would have likely won me over.

We went to look at some windows listed on buy and sell (they weren't what we needed). The place was another life lesson on not hoarding. The husband died, and left his wife to deal with shed after shed of stuff, crammed to the rafters with old tools, old wood, bits and pieces of things like part of a bathroom shower set, jars, old furniture, containers of screws and nails, and rusted garbage all over the yard.

A friend of the widow's had been helping her ALL SUMMER to sell things and clean the yard up. I feel like this woman is some kind of saint for doing this for her friend. She was very organized, had done what she could to bring out anything of value and clean it up and try to sell it for a good price, and had been also taking loads to the dump or burning things.

I'm grateful that we have done so much to clean up our own yard this summer, after all the disruption and crap from tearing down the trailer and moving the house on. It was really upsetting, but we got most of the piles of crap taken to the dump or sold etc, and I feel a lot better about it.

I'm not sure what we're going to do about the drawings of our addition that we need for the bank. My sweetie looked at the newest set of drawings she sent, and she literally changed the whole thing, which we cannot fathom, because over half of it is already built! We CAN'T change the dimensions of the addition, because they fit over the basement, and the first floor is BUILT ALREADY. The trusses for the roof are already ordered. She changed the dimensions of the addition in her drawings because she can't figure out how to make the stairs fit, but FFS, how hard is it to draw a normal set of stairs going down to the basement from the main floor? Are we the first people in the history of the world to have a set of stairs going into our basement? SHE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT!!!!

She e-mailed us the drawings, and my husband is trying to get her on the phone to sort this out. My husband is MORE than capable of doing the drawings for the house to proper scale, but for whatever reason, the bank won't accept his drawings, they must be done by an engineer, but the engineer can't figure out how to add stairs.

We've been trying to get a simple set of drawings for a simple addition (literally a porch, a bedroom, and one room above them on the second floor), and NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO GET THAT DONE!

We don't even need drawings to do the work, because our own drawings have been working just fine. The framing for the first floor is up already, and it meshes just fine with our plans. The area set aside for the stairs to the basement makes sense too.

Personally, I think we should go back to the bank and talk to them about how literally no one knows how to draw a set of stairs. We've spent six months now trying to get someone to do this to satisfy the bank. We will have the addition built before we can get drawings for it, they can always just come look at it when it's done, I guess.