Saturday, November 5
Nov. 5th, 2022 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
My Sweetie and I getting after emptying the sea can. It is not completely empty, and what is left is the bigger, more difficult things like a mattress and shelves, but we DID manage to move most of the smaller boxes and totes into the basement today. It required us using sleds to drag to boxes over to the house, then taking them downstairs. WHEW!
The weather wasn't HORRIBLE, but it was windy and snowing some more. R and I decided to cancel the paint night and try again next Saturday, because half of the people registered had cancelled from either the weather or from being sick.
Then, we cleaned up the work shop (garage) that is heated to above freezing to make room for the goat pen we set up every winter in case we need it. I put the goats in whenever I think it is too cold for them. Usually for only a few days over the winter, but a very important few days.
I think it even surprised my husband, how much of a difference it made to work for about an hour putting things away in his garage. A lot of it was still just materials for the house. They are not GONE, just put in the car port part of the garage, mostly.
Then we made supper and watched the newest "Jurassic Park". It was awful. No story, no suspense, no real sense of worrying that any of the main characters were in any real danger, recycled plot, just lazy and awful.
I learned that the first recorded labour strike took place in Ancient Egypt, in 1170 BCE, by tomb workers. After the grain supply was repeatedly late, workers stopped working and demanded prompt pay. Because it was the first of its kind, management did not know how to react, and largely caved to demands.
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/egyptian-laborers-strike-pay-1170-bce
My Sweetie and I getting after emptying the sea can. It is not completely empty, and what is left is the bigger, more difficult things like a mattress and shelves, but we DID manage to move most of the smaller boxes and totes into the basement today. It required us using sleds to drag to boxes over to the house, then taking them downstairs. WHEW!
The weather wasn't HORRIBLE, but it was windy and snowing some more. R and I decided to cancel the paint night and try again next Saturday, because half of the people registered had cancelled from either the weather or from being sick.
Then, we cleaned up the work shop (garage) that is heated to above freezing to make room for the goat pen we set up every winter in case we need it. I put the goats in whenever I think it is too cold for them. Usually for only a few days over the winter, but a very important few days.
I think it even surprised my husband, how much of a difference it made to work for about an hour putting things away in his garage. A lot of it was still just materials for the house. They are not GONE, just put in the car port part of the garage, mostly.
Then we made supper and watched the newest "Jurassic Park". It was awful. No story, no suspense, no real sense of worrying that any of the main characters were in any real danger, recycled plot, just lazy and awful.
I learned that the first recorded labour strike took place in Ancient Egypt, in 1170 BCE, by tomb workers. After the grain supply was repeatedly late, workers stopped working and demanded prompt pay. Because it was the first of its kind, management did not know how to react, and largely caved to demands.
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/egyptian-laborers-strike-pay-1170-bce
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Date: 2022-11-08 07:02 am (UTC)Have you made a decision about finishing the windows, now that they're installed? Great timing, by the way.
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Date: 2022-11-08 07:48 am (UTC)We want to make sure the ground is frozen HARD before we move it, or the truck/trailer will tear up the yard badly. Right now, the snow actually insulates the ground, and it is still soft underneath.
We do not have a firm decision about the window frames either, because the contractor is still working on a lead to get some reclaimed fir that would match the frames better, and seeing what his estimates for labor would be. I hope we have some kind of answer in a week or so, because I have everything still in piles all over the house because I have everything pushed away from the windows.
If we either are, or aren't doing them right now, I would like to be able to put everything back where it belongs at some point.
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Date: 2022-11-08 08:31 pm (UTC)Here, none of the outdoor projects were completed except the insulation of the milkbox. It should be warm enough on Thursday for me to paint the repair to the door and to see about something (wood?) to cover the insulation. There's still time for a heap of gravel at the back to be moved out, but it's looking iffy as days go by.
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Date: 2022-11-08 08:48 pm (UTC)The frames around the windows might be a different story. They might not get done right now. If the estimate is too high, it will have to wait until we have more money ahead. It's understandable, if we need to wait.
I will try to do some more painting over the winter, and hopefully we can do some other things, too. The pace will be slower, but hopefully not halted.
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Date: 2022-11-10 02:39 am (UTC)I (we?) have about three days before it gets crazy cold here. I've lined up the lavenders et al, but there's not a lot I can do outside except shove the big planks of wood (that are, for no reason I can think of, leaning against the trampoline) somewhere.