no i'm not writing a wrap-up post
Dec. 31st, 2018 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I just don't really have it in me to do that.
I am one giant ball of muscle cramps and I feel like I got beat up. Usually walking to and from work limbers me up, but I guess my cycle is overpowering all that. i even decided to power through the cramps and the rain and walk home, in hopes that it'd help, but.
Dude turned 39 today. He is in the grips of a slow-onset but brutal cold; he's pretty sure it's an ear infection on one side at least, too, and that's awful.
Not to be a Gross Old Person, but one of the gifts I'd gotten him for his birthday was lingerie for me, and I mentioned it and said "uh but can we do a rain check" because he is a headachey, lethargic snot ball and I am one giant mass of cramps, and he was like "please" so that's how tonight's gonna go-- quiet sitting on the couch, comfy PJs, maybe a snuggle. It's ok, we're old and there's literally zero pressure at this point. We do fine. We'll do fine later.
The other gift I got him was linen sheets because I've always wanted linen sheets and there was a sale somewhere, I forget where now, and I snapped them up but it was Too Indulgent for me to justify as a just-because, so it's his birthday present, but awkwardly enough I also got him sheets for Christmas.
But those were Land's End jersey knit sheets to replace the ones he loves and wore pinholes in. So-- winter sheets and summer sheets, really.
Maybe this can prompt a going-through of the linen closet and discarding some of the less-appealing old sets of sheets. As a bonus I can use them to back yurt wall quilts, which I need to make and fireproof because my sister quietly confirmed I did get a woodstove for the yurt from Mom and Dad, which I'll get for real at our family Christmas which is still TBD but probably Jan 12th weekend?
One of my 2019 goals will be to learn to use a chainsaw, I guess. BIL offered to buy me some firewood, but I thought, you know, I should resolve to collect and chop and burn a lot of the deadwood lying around the farm, because the little woodstove for the yurt won't fit full-sized logs anyway, and there are a billion fallen trees that need tidying up.
I am one giant ball of muscle cramps and I feel like I got beat up. Usually walking to and from work limbers me up, but I guess my cycle is overpowering all that. i even decided to power through the cramps and the rain and walk home, in hopes that it'd help, but.
Dude turned 39 today. He is in the grips of a slow-onset but brutal cold; he's pretty sure it's an ear infection on one side at least, too, and that's awful.
Not to be a Gross Old Person, but one of the gifts I'd gotten him for his birthday was lingerie for me, and I mentioned it and said "uh but can we do a rain check" because he is a headachey, lethargic snot ball and I am one giant mass of cramps, and he was like "please" so that's how tonight's gonna go-- quiet sitting on the couch, comfy PJs, maybe a snuggle. It's ok, we're old and there's literally zero pressure at this point. We do fine. We'll do fine later.
The other gift I got him was linen sheets because I've always wanted linen sheets and there was a sale somewhere, I forget where now, and I snapped them up but it was Too Indulgent for me to justify as a just-because, so it's his birthday present, but awkwardly enough I also got him sheets for Christmas.
But those were Land's End jersey knit sheets to replace the ones he loves and wore pinholes in. So-- winter sheets and summer sheets, really.
Maybe this can prompt a going-through of the linen closet and discarding some of the less-appealing old sets of sheets. As a bonus I can use them to back yurt wall quilts, which I need to make and fireproof because my sister quietly confirmed I did get a woodstove for the yurt from Mom and Dad, which I'll get for real at our family Christmas which is still TBD but probably Jan 12th weekend?
One of my 2019 goals will be to learn to use a chainsaw, I guess. BIL offered to buy me some firewood, but I thought, you know, I should resolve to collect and chop and burn a lot of the deadwood lying around the farm, because the little woodstove for the yurt won't fit full-sized logs anyway, and there are a billion fallen trees that need tidying up.
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Date: 2019-01-01 01:52 pm (UTC)They're not too hard to use as long as they're maintained decently. And it doesn't feel silly to buy firewood if there's all these damn trees around. You might want to keep an eye out for dead ash trees. The emerald ash borers are taking them all out and at the least BIL should be checking for dead standing ones around important things like roads or buildings.
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Date: 2019-01-01 05:11 pm (UTC)There was a big dead tree that fell partly on the old barn the year before last. We just kind of broke it in half and hauled it off the road but most of the corpse of the tree is still there. I have a garbage falling-over tree near the yurt I need to take down, and then chop up and stack. The stream-gorge behind the yurt is just full of downed snags. And there are a lot of brush piles around that I should just-- take a pickup truck and tidy up and organize. Some can be for the house's woodburning stoves, but the little shit can all just get burned up a little at a time in the yurt stove so I can keep the damp out of the walls of the yurt.
I'll need to build a little woodshed, I think, but I also think I can just kind of improvise that, and then I'll have a place to dry all the shit out so I can use it up as I go.
I am sadly ignorant about building things, but I bet I could figure it out. I don't want to, but I could also probably bully my dad into helping me figure it out.
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