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Still moving....
Apr. 14th, 2014 09:04 amNot quite sure how, given that not a single shovelful in the area I'm working in is without a rock or five to run into, but still moving. My new rock pile is getting larger... Not done yet, of course. And, probably won't get further with it today.
Saturday was beautiful and we got quite a bit done. Sunday started out rainy but by afternoon it had dried out enough we went out to get more done -- me by the milk house and L in the pasture area, west of the barn and carriage house. Got some work done, and then a couple showed up next door and were looking at the bags of mulch -- some of which were ours, so I went over to say hello. We got that sorted out, as well as learned a few more things about the area as they used to live nearby. They're helping our neighbor D to remove some things from the property, as she has been trying to clean up to put it up for sale.
She tried to save the house when it would have been better to put it up for sale at least a year ago. Not hard to understand though, as she'd lived there for 40 years, but her husband passed a few years ago after an illness, and she is in poor health (bad back, among other things), so it's just too much house for her at this point. One of the areas she was just getting to recently was the greenhouses in the back yard, which is full of garden and silk flower-type stuff. Much of it is now trash, although there are still some treasures and useful things. We took over moving stuff out -- it won't all get cleaned out immediately, but we moved the bags of trash she'd filled so far over to our place, plus a bit more yesterday.
The house is officially on the market now, and she has someone coming to see the place in the late afternoon today, so we're trying to make sure it's as presentable as we all can manage. Looks like we'll be buying the greenhouses. We're also paying for the trash, so to speak, because we offered to take it to the transfer point for her and non-recycleables have to be paid for, but she really doesn't have a lot of money, unfortunately. We're getting a very good price on the greenhouses -- we'd pay her more if we could, but she's happy with the price she's asking for them, and we don't want to get over our heads. We're also going to end up with more garden stuff than we need, but I'm sure I can find homes for whatever we don't want to keep. Oh, and she also threw in a pressure waterer that's in one of the greenhouses, yikes.
Anyway, I'll be over there in a bit to do some yard work and move some more stuff out of the green houses, so there's my exercise for the day.
And today, I really _must_ soak in the tub!
***
Oh, and somewhere in there yesterday, I sewed the front and back seams for the body of the black kimono -- three times for the back seam as I kept putting things together incorrectly. Some days I can do amazing things, and sometimes basic stuff defeats me :P
Saturday was beautiful and we got quite a bit done. Sunday started out rainy but by afternoon it had dried out enough we went out to get more done -- me by the milk house and L in the pasture area, west of the barn and carriage house. Got some work done, and then a couple showed up next door and were looking at the bags of mulch -- some of which were ours, so I went over to say hello. We got that sorted out, as well as learned a few more things about the area as they used to live nearby. They're helping our neighbor D to remove some things from the property, as she has been trying to clean up to put it up for sale.
She tried to save the house when it would have been better to put it up for sale at least a year ago. Not hard to understand though, as she'd lived there for 40 years, but her husband passed a few years ago after an illness, and she is in poor health (bad back, among other things), so it's just too much house for her at this point. One of the areas she was just getting to recently was the greenhouses in the back yard, which is full of garden and silk flower-type stuff. Much of it is now trash, although there are still some treasures and useful things. We took over moving stuff out -- it won't all get cleaned out immediately, but we moved the bags of trash she'd filled so far over to our place, plus a bit more yesterday.
The house is officially on the market now, and she has someone coming to see the place in the late afternoon today, so we're trying to make sure it's as presentable as we all can manage. Looks like we'll be buying the greenhouses. We're also paying for the trash, so to speak, because we offered to take it to the transfer point for her and non-recycleables have to be paid for, but she really doesn't have a lot of money, unfortunately. We're getting a very good price on the greenhouses -- we'd pay her more if we could, but she's happy with the price she's asking for them, and we don't want to get over our heads. We're also going to end up with more garden stuff than we need, but I'm sure I can find homes for whatever we don't want to keep. Oh, and she also threw in a pressure waterer that's in one of the greenhouses, yikes.
Anyway, I'll be over there in a bit to do some yard work and move some more stuff out of the green houses, so there's my exercise for the day.
And today, I really _must_ soak in the tub!
***
Oh, and somewhere in there yesterday, I sewed the front and back seams for the body of the black kimono -- three times for the back seam as I kept putting things together incorrectly. Some days I can do amazing things, and sometimes basic stuff defeats me :P
