Wednesday, June 19
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather. Warmer, but not hot.
Getting some things picked up and out of the living room. It's not really a solved problem, as now that stuff is all just upstairs again, but at least it's out of my every day visual field.
Then I did a bunch of laundry.
I went outside and did my chores, and I hauled away the accumulated pails of cat litter. We use compostable pellets for cat litter, and I take them to a pile in the bush when I have time. Unfortunately, my habits being what they are, I often pour the used litter into a pail that sits beside the house until I have a couple of pails, and they are by then kind of an eyesore. Sigh.
I talked with my Sweetie about the stuff in the crappy "carport" quonset that we are likely replacing this summer. A lot of it is...surprise!...lumber and unused building supplies that are just sitting in heaps in there. That's mostly why it couldn't be used to park the tractor in there any more.
So, some of the materials he is willing to part with, now that it is obvious that we aren't using them. When, I don't know, as he's going away this weekend.
Why is so much of life just dealing with piles of crap everywhere? Honestly! There is so much of life that is amazing, and we never seem to do much of that. We're not going kayaking, we're not sitting around a camp fire in our yard looking at the stars. Nope. We're looking at piles of crap and figuring out if we're keeping it or not, and continually "organizing" (moving our crap from one pile to another). I swear half of my life has been dedicated to moving shit around from one room to another, one shed to another.
It's funny, they make movies about people who are rock stars, astronauts, travelers, they don't seem to make movies about people who spend their entire life trying to make their husbands use up or get rid of old lumber and down spouts. About women with too many knick knacks and too much stuff in their basements.
I feel like I've wasted a lot of my life on this kind of thing. I get that it has to be done, but it doesn't get RESOLVED, we move the same crap from one place to another over and over again.
I went to see River, and thankfully today he was relaxed and focused. We had our lesson, and worked on our freestyle, and it went pretty well.
Yay.
Then I came home, and my Sweetie and I talked about him starting up the tractor so he could move a set of harrows, so that I could mow the grass and weeds under it, and clear the area in front of the quonset full of crap so we could get in there and start cleaning it.
Well, the tractor won't start because the battery needs charging. Of course. So, stalled right in our tracks. Naturally the battery is dead, because we never use this tractor. Maybe once or twice a year. So, it sits there, taking up a lot of space, and when we need it, the battery is dead.
The harrows also take up a lot of room, and how often do we use them? Maybe once a year to drag up and down the lane to even out the gravel. Yup. A tractor and a set of harrows that pretty much never get used, and yet have to be moved so we can mow around them. No really good place for them, either. Just smack dab right in front of the garage, most of the time.
Then we watched some "Justified". Raylon just lives in a hotel room. Maybe in a lot of ways his life isn't better, but he isn't hoarding lumber. That makes Raylon seem very appealing at times.
Nice weather. Warmer, but not hot.
Getting some things picked up and out of the living room. It's not really a solved problem, as now that stuff is all just upstairs again, but at least it's out of my every day visual field.
Then I did a bunch of laundry.
I went outside and did my chores, and I hauled away the accumulated pails of cat litter. We use compostable pellets for cat litter, and I take them to a pile in the bush when I have time. Unfortunately, my habits being what they are, I often pour the used litter into a pail that sits beside the house until I have a couple of pails, and they are by then kind of an eyesore. Sigh.
I talked with my Sweetie about the stuff in the crappy "carport" quonset that we are likely replacing this summer. A lot of it is...surprise!...lumber and unused building supplies that are just sitting in heaps in there. That's mostly why it couldn't be used to park the tractor in there any more.
So, some of the materials he is willing to part with, now that it is obvious that we aren't using them. When, I don't know, as he's going away this weekend.
Why is so much of life just dealing with piles of crap everywhere? Honestly! There is so much of life that is amazing, and we never seem to do much of that. We're not going kayaking, we're not sitting around a camp fire in our yard looking at the stars. Nope. We're looking at piles of crap and figuring out if we're keeping it or not, and continually "organizing" (moving our crap from one pile to another). I swear half of my life has been dedicated to moving shit around from one room to another, one shed to another.
It's funny, they make movies about people who are rock stars, astronauts, travelers, they don't seem to make movies about people who spend their entire life trying to make their husbands use up or get rid of old lumber and down spouts. About women with too many knick knacks and too much stuff in their basements.
I feel like I've wasted a lot of my life on this kind of thing. I get that it has to be done, but it doesn't get RESOLVED, we move the same crap from one place to another over and over again.
I went to see River, and thankfully today he was relaxed and focused. We had our lesson, and worked on our freestyle, and it went pretty well.
Yay.
Then I came home, and my Sweetie and I talked about him starting up the tractor so he could move a set of harrows, so that I could mow the grass and weeds under it, and clear the area in front of the quonset full of crap so we could get in there and start cleaning it.
Well, the tractor won't start because the battery needs charging. Of course. So, stalled right in our tracks. Naturally the battery is dead, because we never use this tractor. Maybe once or twice a year. So, it sits there, taking up a lot of space, and when we need it, the battery is dead.
The harrows also take up a lot of room, and how often do we use them? Maybe once a year to drag up and down the lane to even out the gravel. Yup. A tractor and a set of harrows that pretty much never get used, and yet have to be moved so we can mow around them. No really good place for them, either. Just smack dab right in front of the garage, most of the time.
Then we watched some "Justified". Raylon just lives in a hotel room. Maybe in a lot of ways his life isn't better, but he isn't hoarding lumber. That makes Raylon seem very appealing at times.
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Date: 2024-06-21 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-21 08:25 pm (UTC)Also, you can set things off to one side at the dump, but of course, it could also end up in the dump at the end of the day.
Though none of this is going to happen right away, my husband had a pile of saved metal pieces that he didn't know if he needed for soffits that he say he can now recycle, and some lumber that could be stored behind the garage with the other lumber....he also says he's going to build a proper rack for storing the lumber, but he's said that for years.
Right now, the pile of lumber is just a stack of stuff and it's hard to find anything useful, but at least it's kind of out of the way.
Also, a lot of the building material COULD be useful, so it isn't garbage, just stored badly and in the wrong place. That carport thingy was meant to be used to park the tractor, but with the house building project it got taken over by other things, and hopefully now that the bigger work is tapering off, it can be reclaimed.
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Date: 2024-06-24 07:30 am (UTC)This would be the perfect time of year to replace the porch floor. I washed it last month with Dawn and castile soap, using one of those steel-bristled deck brushes. It is much better, though has large gouges and chunks missing.
What will happen if I suggest filling the holes and gouges with wood filler? Let's find out.
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Date: 2024-06-24 07:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-06-22 02:54 am (UTC)I've got a ton of crap and I keep trying to figure out how to get rid of it so I have less when I move and more money instead. I wish you the best! Because Where you live must be absolutely idyllic for campfires and start watching.....!
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Date: 2024-06-22 04:37 am (UTC)I guess I am just amazed sometimes at how much of our lives can be occupied by such tedious issues, ones that just keep recurring since you never really fix most things "once and for all".
Clutter is one of those things. You can clear a space, get it all looking nice, and somehow it just gets all heaped up again. Every time you turn your back on a shed or a part of the yard, there's crap stacked there again.
It's hard to enjoy the beauty when you keep getting bogged down by mundane chores and repeating cycles of maintenance.
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Date: 2024-06-23 08:08 pm (UTC)