Thursday, October 20
Oct. 20th, 2022 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Lovely weather still.
The OTHER contractor (furnace/plumbing) guy was here today, and looks like he was able to get the bathroom fixtures all hooked up. So, now the sink, toilet, and shower/bath are functional (though the tub needs the doors installed).
Looks like he did a bit of duct work too.
The regular contractor was here too for a short while, I guess helping the other guy (they know each other and work together often)?
My Sweetie came home from work today. On his way home, he went past a seller from Buy and Sell who had a brand new fly sheet in River's size for super cheap, so I asked if he could meet up with my husband.
It worked out, and looks like a good sheet. Apparently it just didn't fit his horse, and he waited too long to take it back. We'll see if it fits River. It should. If so, that means I would have two fly sheets so that when he tears the crap out of one, I can put the other one on and take the wrecked one home to fix.
I often feel like they are a waste of time, they are so flimsy. You might as well wrap them in toilet paper. R insists, though.
My Sweetie talked to one of our building friends. He has had dibs on our sea can, and we are now ready to empty it and sell it to him, since we have some storage in the basement (not a lot, but hopefully enough).
My Sweetie and I also are going to round up a truck load of the various unwanted leftovers from building to take in and donate to Habitat for Humanity, or if they won't take it, to set off to the side at the dump for people to just take. There is stuff all over that we can donate, because we have already decided we won't be re-using it. Just didn't want to toss it.
That will empty a lot out of the sea can, and free up some space in the garage. I REALLY HOPE THIS GETS DONE THIS WEEKEND. We've been talked about it for a while now. It needs to be done.
Then, I brought in several boxes, some bags containing blankets, took a big box of pottery to be stored in a shed (cold won't harm it).
I am taking some things directly upstairs to be stored with other craft items. No point taking it to the basement, only to be brought upstairs later.
I am trying to see if there is anything to get rid of right now. It's tough, because I MISSED this stuff, and it's hard to process it all right now.
Then we let the animals out for a while, and went for a pasture walk.
Then we came in and watched "Murder on the Nile", which I thought was quite good, and has gorgeous clothes and settings.
Today I learned that the entire Oregon coast is public.
https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/OCMP/Pages/Public-Access.aspx
Lovely weather still.
The OTHER contractor (furnace/plumbing) guy was here today, and looks like he was able to get the bathroom fixtures all hooked up. So, now the sink, toilet, and shower/bath are functional (though the tub needs the doors installed).
Looks like he did a bit of duct work too.
The regular contractor was here too for a short while, I guess helping the other guy (they know each other and work together often)?
My Sweetie came home from work today. On his way home, he went past a seller from Buy and Sell who had a brand new fly sheet in River's size for super cheap, so I asked if he could meet up with my husband.
It worked out, and looks like a good sheet. Apparently it just didn't fit his horse, and he waited too long to take it back. We'll see if it fits River. It should. If so, that means I would have two fly sheets so that when he tears the crap out of one, I can put the other one on and take the wrecked one home to fix.
I often feel like they are a waste of time, they are so flimsy. You might as well wrap them in toilet paper. R insists, though.
My Sweetie talked to one of our building friends. He has had dibs on our sea can, and we are now ready to empty it and sell it to him, since we have some storage in the basement (not a lot, but hopefully enough).
My Sweetie and I also are going to round up a truck load of the various unwanted leftovers from building to take in and donate to Habitat for Humanity, or if they won't take it, to set off to the side at the dump for people to just take. There is stuff all over that we can donate, because we have already decided we won't be re-using it. Just didn't want to toss it.
That will empty a lot out of the sea can, and free up some space in the garage. I REALLY HOPE THIS GETS DONE THIS WEEKEND. We've been talked about it for a while now. It needs to be done.
Then, I brought in several boxes, some bags containing blankets, took a big box of pottery to be stored in a shed (cold won't harm it).
I am taking some things directly upstairs to be stored with other craft items. No point taking it to the basement, only to be brought upstairs later.
I am trying to see if there is anything to get rid of right now. It's tough, because I MISSED this stuff, and it's hard to process it all right now.
Then we let the animals out for a while, and went for a pasture walk.
Then we came in and watched "Murder on the Nile", which I thought was quite good, and has gorgeous clothes and settings.
Today I learned that the entire Oregon coast is public.
https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/OCMP/Pages/Public-Access.aspx
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Date: 2022-10-21 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-22 02:34 am (UTC)I know there's a lot to do, but it really seems like things are consistently moving forward - I'm happy for you!
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Date: 2022-10-22 07:32 am (UTC)You're right though, things are moving slowly but surely.
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Date: 2022-10-23 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-23 07:00 am (UTC)We have had people here since we've brought this house onto the property, but I always feel like I have to apologize for the state of it being unfinished. I always feel that it looks cluttered, or I worry that it smells of cat (very easy for a cat owner to get numb to the smell of litter boxes).
I have to admit, I have just ALWAYS felt self-conscious about my home, wherever I have lived.
I sometimes talk myself into feeling like it is okay, and it likely is, then I go to someone else's lovely, gracious, low-clutter home and I feel like that person would never feel at ease in my house.
I have a few people though, whose houses look a lot more like mine, and I feel better about having them come over because they will get it.
I too, would like to feel at peace about having guests. My goal is to have at least the main floor (besides our bedroom) kept to a level where I would be happy having someone drop by.
At least the yard, besides the area right around the house that is still bare dirt from digging the basement, looks pretty good again.
There were piles of concrete, lumber, scrap steel from the old duct work, and the grass was all torn up everywhere when we brought the house into our yard. It was understandable the first winter, to have that mess, because we had JUST torn down the trailer and dug the basement and moved on the house, and it was to be expected.
The next summer was all about getting that mess cleaned up, and man, that was awful. It made me very upset because our nice yard was always the best part of living here.
We have it ALMOST back to where it was.
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Date: 2022-10-24 11:53 pm (UTC)Yes, I'd somehow feel that way about a young man versus a couple too.
It's just admirable you don't let how you feel stop you. My Mother would not be that way. If something bothered her, she'd likely cut herself off from enjoying it until it was good enough. Sometimes she is better now, but she sure holds me to that standard still. And you either live this life now or you wait until it's "perfect" and no one is left to live it with most likely. I'm sure it's making a difference to people seeing your house as it progresses too. I'd be interested to see how you live in a house you are still creating so much of, and all you are doing. It's fascinating and very admirable, all that you do. And for those with perfect-ish homes, well, truly they are coming to see YOU. Maybe they will LIKE what they see in your lived-in home and wish they could relax more, or maybe they won't but will like you enough to smile that you love your home the way it is enough to still live in it and invite people in. I hope that makes sense. I'm tired! :) But I think your goal of those rooms drop-by ready is great.
When I saw pictures of customers in those dresses, 50% of their homes were magazine like. The rest were sloppy messes... that looked like my place! I just do not have the health to sort and organize everything myself. And I don't have the HELP for it either these days. I do want to get spaces camera ready so I can take pictures to send people of outfits and stuff, and also video eventually for Smule. But every day it's hmmmm get food to eat, or sort a pile of papers. Some days I can get things done, other days I survive. On a very different level, I suppose everyone survives some days. Living in an unfinished house is a survival all it's own - exciting and I'm sure uncertain all at the same time. <3
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Date: 2022-10-25 06:45 am (UTC)How do you live in a house in progress? Every situation is different. With us, we mostly have just been living in the part of the house, the original part, that is not greatly affected by the work going on in the addition and the basement. It is livable on it's own, though it needs to have cracks in the walls fixed.
With the windows being replaced, I have had to move everything away from the windows and take down the curtains to give the contractors access to the inside of the windows as they install them. It means piles of stuff that can't go back until we are at the stage where the spray insulation goes in the window frames.
When it comes time to fix the cracks in the walls and paint, it will mean moving everything out of one room to work on it, or putting some stuff in the middle with sheets over it while we paint and patch.
With the contractors working in the addition and the basement, it has meant a LOT of noise, and trying to be comfortable with having people come into the basement while I am still in bed because of my whacked-out sleep schedule.
It means talking with them a lot about what we need to do, and getting daily updates, and lots and lots and lots of decisions about things like doors, paint color, flooring, light fixtures, bathroom fixtures, and on and on.
It means trying to agree on things with my husband over the phone as we both try to find things online.
It means hours and hours of comparison shopping for price and styles of every single thing.
It is stacks of building material in the basement, and in the garage. Piles of garbage to be taken away.
At the beginning it meant getting permits from the country, endless inspections as we got the basement built and put the house on and hooked up the utilities. It meant fighting with the bank for the new mortgage, and having all kinds of friends and contractors constantly at work in the yard or in the house while I tried to sleep or take care of the animals.
Living in the house at the very beginning, when it was up on blocks with temporary power, sewer, etc. Was pretty rough. It was only for a while, a few months, then it got put onto the new basement and was hooked up and it was better. It did mean not being sure if there would be hot water that day, or power. We had to get into the house with ladders since it was up on blocks and no permanent set of stairs yet. So, it also meant carrying in groceries like that, and carrying the dog up and down the ladder or helping her jump. It was waking up every day to the sound of heavy equipment as they dug the basement, literally 50 feet away from the house.
What bothers me about having people over, isn't even really that it is still unfinished, it is that it is always cluttered. It is just a mish mash of stuff. Nothing especially awful about it, just unlike most people's homes. My home looks more like a curiosity shop, and definitely not a tastefully decorated home set up for entertaining.
If you want to just take nice pictures of your outfits or yourself, you could hang some curtains just for the photo shoot, or get a room screen.
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Date: 2022-10-26 01:26 pm (UTC)makes sense.
i remember some of that. we moved here when i'd just turned 5. unfinished. but i was a kid so responsibility was don't fall in this hole or that pit lol, not everything you have on you. maybe as it gets finished you'l finally have space for things to not feel cluttered. personally, if things are clean, i don't mind clutter in people's homes. Just feels lived in and you experience them more I think. but everyone is different.
yes, think i'll do that. need to figure lighting too. this house is awful for it i realize. we look awful in pics.
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Date: 2022-11-02 01:25 pm (UTC)