Friday, November 18
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather today.
The last official day for the contractors, but it is a little confusing because there is some mumbling from he and my husband about coming back to do something later? I need to clarify this.
He did take his tools all out of the basement.
I very much would like it if we could have finished the inside window frames this time, but it will have to wait. Hopefully they get done not too far in the future.
At the same time, it will be lovely not to have people pounding away on the house while I am trying to sleep, or have people needing access to the house, and to deal with rapid fire decisions required IMMEDIATELY!
My Sweetie, the contractor, and moi got MOST of the sea can empty today, and it wasn't too awful. It is very frustrating that we didn't finish. My husband didn't want to pay the contractor to help with smaller things we could do ourselves, and then we ran out of time before I had to go to the riding barn.
We are SO CLOSE to having it empty, and that is a dangerous thing, because this is often where my husband loses momentum, because at that point, we could be done in an hour, so no rush. Many projects around our trailer ground to a halt at being 90% done, because, well, it was something he could do any time, right?
We can't do it all tomorrow, so I am going to really push for it to be done on Sunday.
Argh. Almost doesn't count, in this case. At least my wiliness in talking to the contractor yesterday did pay off.
Then we went to the barn. River was in a good mood, focused and interested. I did my best to bring a ton of positive energy to the table.
He did really well on our ground work.
I worked on elements that I want to incorporate into that freestyle entry. One thing I have to realize, is that whether or not we are impressive enough to win or place at anything, we have come a long way.
It dawned on me that here I was, riding him bareback with just a neck rope, yet getting him to do a kind of cloverleaf pattern requiring tight turns to pick poles up and put them in a barrel at a trot, then cantering, then a halt, and while our shoulder yields are rough, we are trying.
To be reasonably comfortable riding with just a neck rope is an accomplishment. I have to give ourselves credit for that.
We came home and had supper, and watched some of "The Expanse". It has been a really interesting series so far.
Today I learned that several species of fungi are predators, including the edible oyster mushroom which can paralyse nematodes and then puncture it with filaments and digest it. Other fungi set little booby traps or even something similar to a snare.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-carnivorous-mushroom-poisons-its-prey/
Nice weather today.
The last official day for the contractors, but it is a little confusing because there is some mumbling from he and my husband about coming back to do something later? I need to clarify this.
He did take his tools all out of the basement.
I very much would like it if we could have finished the inside window frames this time, but it will have to wait. Hopefully they get done not too far in the future.
At the same time, it will be lovely not to have people pounding away on the house while I am trying to sleep, or have people needing access to the house, and to deal with rapid fire decisions required IMMEDIATELY!
My Sweetie, the contractor, and moi got MOST of the sea can empty today, and it wasn't too awful. It is very frustrating that we didn't finish. My husband didn't want to pay the contractor to help with smaller things we could do ourselves, and then we ran out of time before I had to go to the riding barn.
We are SO CLOSE to having it empty, and that is a dangerous thing, because this is often where my husband loses momentum, because at that point, we could be done in an hour, so no rush. Many projects around our trailer ground to a halt at being 90% done, because, well, it was something he could do any time, right?
We can't do it all tomorrow, so I am going to really push for it to be done on Sunday.
Argh. Almost doesn't count, in this case. At least my wiliness in talking to the contractor yesterday did pay off.
Then we went to the barn. River was in a good mood, focused and interested. I did my best to bring a ton of positive energy to the table.
He did really well on our ground work.
I worked on elements that I want to incorporate into that freestyle entry. One thing I have to realize, is that whether or not we are impressive enough to win or place at anything, we have come a long way.
It dawned on me that here I was, riding him bareback with just a neck rope, yet getting him to do a kind of cloverleaf pattern requiring tight turns to pick poles up and put them in a barrel at a trot, then cantering, then a halt, and while our shoulder yields are rough, we are trying.
To be reasonably comfortable riding with just a neck rope is an accomplishment. I have to give ourselves credit for that.
We came home and had supper, and watched some of "The Expanse". It has been a really interesting series so far.
Today I learned that several species of fungi are predators, including the edible oyster mushroom which can paralyse nematodes and then puncture it with filaments and digest it. Other fungi set little booby traps or even something similar to a snare.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-carnivorous-mushroom-poisons-its-prey/
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Date: 2022-11-22 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-22 07:22 am (UTC)The one small section of baseboard that never got finished for years in the kitchen, until I decided to make an issue of it.
In this house, it has been a similar pattern, in that we were rushing just to get the worst things up to a livable point. Literally just filling a hole in the wall with an exterior door or me painting over horrible flaking paint in the current bathroom as a temporary fix until one day we can do something better.
We aren't even getting to 90% in most areas yet. The main part of the house, yes. What we need to do in the ENTIRE old house part is to fill cracks and repaint every room (cracks from moving the house). We haven't even started on that yet.
I think we are currently at 90% for the bathroom and bedroom in the basement. The doors both need painting, the bathroom needs some tile and the door for the tub/shower installed. It would be pretty easy to just leave it there for a year or two, so I can't relax yet.