Thursday, August 11
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A lovely, sunny day.
I did my best to get SOMETHING done today.
I got our bottles (milk cartons, tetras, aluminum drink cans, etc.) to the bottle depot. Here we have deposits on things like that, and you get money for returning them. Ours have been piling up for a while. The depot nearby is only open a few days a week until 4 pm. so it isn't easy to get to.
I also fueled the truck and filled the can used for the lawn mower etc. at home while I was in town.
I had a phone conversation with Trainwreck, and she is still very overwhelmed about this upcoming winter, because she can't keep up with the yard, and the things that need to happen before winter. She has a male room mate, and part of their agreement is that he help with things like this, but he isn't doing enough to keep up. To be fair, it isn't going to be easy when my sister can't afford a good lawn mower, and there's so much stuff everywhere that in order to do something, you usually have to move a mountain of stuff first.
I did come up with one possible thing to help my sister. Enlist the help of our somewhat reclusive adult nephew who lives in the area. He is the big, strong silent type, and he will generally do all kinds of work for a reasonable trade/not much money.
For example, he is my sister N's son, and he does all kinds of things for N and her partner, and in return they drive him around for groceries etc. (Nephew doesn't drive).
I am reasonably sure Trainwreck could trade him either something useful to him from her hoard, or good hot meals, or trips to the nearby city when she goes, or money when she has it to have him do yard work, clean up, or getting ready for winter.
She was actually taken aback when I suggested it, because it MIGHT ACTUALLY HELP, and she had no response to something that could help, because usually her response to any suggestion I make is how it can't help.
Anyhow, I truly hope she tries. The worst that happens is that he says no.
Then I talked a bit with Sister S. I wanted to talk with her before her surgery. She seems about as positive as a person can be in her situation, but I wanted her to know I'm thinking about her.
Then I painted the door frame around the recently installed exterior door on the North side of the house. I will need to do another coat, but this is a start.
My Sweetie got home at this point, and we talked about house goals. He is now all hot to build the bedroom in the basement because his adult nephew (that I guess they must have bonded a bit at the recent family wedding) wants to come visit. In a month.
That literally means my husband needs to get that room framed in this weekend, more or less. It can be done. It won't likely be finished-finished, just rough finished. Then he wants to put the bed in there, whether it is finished or not.
I'm all like "whatever". If he wants to do it, and I guess the contractor can do something else? I don't know.
I am peeved that he is now just burning to build that room, because his nephew wants to visit. Not for me.
Also, what we really needed to do is to focus on the half-finished main floor, you know, the part with our future mud room and bed room. The one he said we would be all finished by this Fall. Switching his focus like this isn't helpful, because it is never getting anything really finished. It is half-finishing something and then abandoning it for some other part of the house.
I really wanted to put the linoleum down in the mud room, because for the last three sets of days off, he said he was ready to do that. We HAVE the linoleum. He always says "that will literally take an hour". So, um, why not just do it?
We desperately need to replace our small freezer with a new one, and it will need to go in the mud room. The mud room needs to have the floor done before I bring in a freezer. If it only takes an hour to lay the linoleum, then LET'S DO IT, so that I can get a new freezer put in the house.
Our current one is sitting outside, and the lid is bent a bit so it isn't really sealed. It works, but it has been temporarily sitting outside for three years now.
So, tomorrow he is going to go ...BUY MORE MATERIALS..! God help me.
So I plugged away at anything I could do on my own. I picked raspberries, then later cleaned them and froze them.
I mowed for a while.
I let everyone out into their pastures for a bit.
I learned that the Roman Colosseum was in active use for almost four hundred years. In that time, it is estimated that 400,000 gladiators and at least one million animals died for entertainment.
Though many kinds of animals were used in these "battles", such as hippos, tigers, deer, rabbits, alligators, ostriches, etc., they did not use wolves. Wolves were sacred in Rome (think of the legend of the origin of Rome, where Remus and Romulus were nursed by a she-wolf, and Romulus is considered to be the founder of Rome).
A lovely, sunny day.
I did my best to get SOMETHING done today.
I got our bottles (milk cartons, tetras, aluminum drink cans, etc.) to the bottle depot. Here we have deposits on things like that, and you get money for returning them. Ours have been piling up for a while. The depot nearby is only open a few days a week until 4 pm. so it isn't easy to get to.
I also fueled the truck and filled the can used for the lawn mower etc. at home while I was in town.
I had a phone conversation with Trainwreck, and she is still very overwhelmed about this upcoming winter, because she can't keep up with the yard, and the things that need to happen before winter. She has a male room mate, and part of their agreement is that he help with things like this, but he isn't doing enough to keep up. To be fair, it isn't going to be easy when my sister can't afford a good lawn mower, and there's so much stuff everywhere that in order to do something, you usually have to move a mountain of stuff first.
I did come up with one possible thing to help my sister. Enlist the help of our somewhat reclusive adult nephew who lives in the area. He is the big, strong silent type, and he will generally do all kinds of work for a reasonable trade/not much money.
For example, he is my sister N's son, and he does all kinds of things for N and her partner, and in return they drive him around for groceries etc. (Nephew doesn't drive).
I am reasonably sure Trainwreck could trade him either something useful to him from her hoard, or good hot meals, or trips to the nearby city when she goes, or money when she has it to have him do yard work, clean up, or getting ready for winter.
She was actually taken aback when I suggested it, because it MIGHT ACTUALLY HELP, and she had no response to something that could help, because usually her response to any suggestion I make is how it can't help.
Anyhow, I truly hope she tries. The worst that happens is that he says no.
Then I talked a bit with Sister S. I wanted to talk with her before her surgery. She seems about as positive as a person can be in her situation, but I wanted her to know I'm thinking about her.
Then I painted the door frame around the recently installed exterior door on the North side of the house. I will need to do another coat, but this is a start.
My Sweetie got home at this point, and we talked about house goals. He is now all hot to build the bedroom in the basement because his adult nephew (that I guess they must have bonded a bit at the recent family wedding) wants to come visit. In a month.
That literally means my husband needs to get that room framed in this weekend, more or less. It can be done. It won't likely be finished-finished, just rough finished. Then he wants to put the bed in there, whether it is finished or not.
I'm all like "whatever". If he wants to do it, and I guess the contractor can do something else? I don't know.
I am peeved that he is now just burning to build that room, because his nephew wants to visit. Not for me.
Also, what we really needed to do is to focus on the half-finished main floor, you know, the part with our future mud room and bed room. The one he said we would be all finished by this Fall. Switching his focus like this isn't helpful, because it is never getting anything really finished. It is half-finishing something and then abandoning it for some other part of the house.
I really wanted to put the linoleum down in the mud room, because for the last three sets of days off, he said he was ready to do that. We HAVE the linoleum. He always says "that will literally take an hour". So, um, why not just do it?
We desperately need to replace our small freezer with a new one, and it will need to go in the mud room. The mud room needs to have the floor done before I bring in a freezer. If it only takes an hour to lay the linoleum, then LET'S DO IT, so that I can get a new freezer put in the house.
Our current one is sitting outside, and the lid is bent a bit so it isn't really sealed. It works, but it has been temporarily sitting outside for three years now.
So, tomorrow he is going to go ...BUY MORE MATERIALS..! God help me.
So I plugged away at anything I could do on my own. I picked raspberries, then later cleaned them and froze them.
I mowed for a while.
I let everyone out into their pastures for a bit.
I learned that the Roman Colosseum was in active use for almost four hundred years. In that time, it is estimated that 400,000 gladiators and at least one million animals died for entertainment.
Though many kinds of animals were used in these "battles", such as hippos, tigers, deer, rabbits, alligators, ostriches, etc., they did not use wolves. Wolves were sacred in Rome (think of the legend of the origin of Rome, where Remus and Romulus were nursed by a she-wolf, and Romulus is considered to be the founder of Rome).
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Date: 2022-08-13 05:43 am (UTC)Would you be able to start the linoleum project yourself, with Spouse or contractor to troubleshoot?
If nephew is arriving in a month (insert eye-rolling here), is he willing to do hometime? Siding? Mudroom?
My end of day song is related to your fact of the day.
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Date: 2022-08-13 09:19 am (UTC)I am thinking it makes the most sense now to finish the bedroom and bathroom downstairs, and to use them when we work on the master bedroom/bathroom. I shudder, because that could take months.
I know that the moment my husband is ready to do the lino, it will take about an hour. I just don't know how to get it done. It would never be me doing it with him supervising, we would just be doing it together if he was present.
My Sweetie actually will be meeting the nephew in another town (Hinton, Ab) to do the MS bike ride together. They will stay there in a hotel for a night or two, then come here, and I am not even sure how long he will be here. A few days?
This huge push is so his nephew can have personal space for a few days.
We do need those rooms done anyhow, as I outlined above. My biggest concern is that they will be half-assed done, you know, functional, and then that's as far as they get.