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[dragonlady7]

yeah cabin pics i'll take some i promise

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idk what i’ve discussed onhere and not, so apologies if i meander repetitively.

have been at the farm for like five or six days. have the cabin basically move-in ready, if you accept that this does not include the metal roof or the like, eaves. (Soffits, to be technical.) or the interior insulation for the roof. ok the roof is just some boards with rubber roof underlayment nailed over-top, so it needs layers inside and out. but like, it does keep out the rain, so it’s a start.

I’m leaving scaffolding set up inside, mostly to remind myself not to move too much shit in. I need to figure out a proper floor too, it’s only the plywood under-floor. I don’t want to move much furniture in.

I also still need a ladder to the loft; I’ve got a six-foot stepladder and the floor is eight feet up so you have to stand on top of the stepladder right on the NO STEPPY HERE label to get up there. Not ideal, but. The plans don’t include building a ladder; BIL wants to make a staircasey-like-thingy, which is a good idea but will take a bit.

But I’ve actually spent more hours cleaning Middle-Little Sister’s apartment than housebuilding this week. Like, we got all the windows in, and the second door on, and that’s great, the windows are even weatherstripped and I washed them with actual Windex to finish the installation, very fun. But M-L is in the midst of buying a house and thus will need to move, so I’d offered to come over and help her start slowly sorting before she began packing. Figured if I started now, by the time they pass their closing date and can move in, we’d have managed to winnow out a lot of her excess junk so we could spare ourselves moving boxes of garbage to a new place where we’d then have to throw them out.

But no; her landlord needed to come in today, which means I spent about twenty hours spread out over three days, including a marathon on Sunday, cleaning her apartment. Her plan was to just cram shit into boxes and fill her bedroom with them (she sleeps in the living room because the downstairs neighbor has shouted conversations in the bedroom at night, apparently) but I managed to instead remove a number of items and sort them before packing things randomly into boxes stacked in the bedroom. We had takeout two days and finally I got tired and brought vegetables from the farm and last night made a lovely frittata. But her apartment– it’s like cooking in a ship’s galley, you literally can’t turn around, to open the oven door you have to stand in the bedroom doorway. It’s ridiculous. I can’t believe she’s lived here for nine years. I can’t wait for her to get out.

Anyway. Landlord’s due in a couple of hours; when I left her last night, she’d cleared out the entryway and made a ton of progress, and condensed shit down into surprisingly compact boxes, which I’d stacked very skillfully in the bedroom, with lighter things on top to the ceiling, so it’s very dense. We got a ton of shit put out to the curb on Monday night, and have since filled a number more of garbage and recycling bags and boxes, which is exciting (might bring some over to Mom’s, since her garbage pickup is later in the week and ML has to go up that direction anyway). I clearly labeled the garbage so it doesn’t wind up accidentally getting moved, that was my genius brainwave.

I’m quite tired and headachey today. It’s rainy, so we can’t work on the cabin. Instead I’m clearing out the slaughterhouse, which has had the normal winter silting-in process take place, with added construction debris– BIL is putting in a commercial kitchen in what used to be our storage bay, and that’s thrown things into chaos besides just being a mess. No slaughter days until mid-May but if I start now, it’ll be easier later.

Anyhow. Well, gonna queue this, so by the time it posts I’ll have heard all about the landlord visit probably. but it looks like the house purchase will actually go through?? after a weekend of miscommunications and chaos?? so we’ll see.

M-L is moving in with a friend, but yesterday we were like… y’all should just get a wedding registry anyway, jeez, neither are the marrying type so this is their big chance. Can you do a Housewarming Registry? You should be able to. They need a proper Kitchenaid mixer and like. A roof. Can you put a roof on a housewarming registry? How about like 30 windows? Maybe that’s more reasonable. Yeah.

Anyway. Back to scrubbing things. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[unicornduke]

lmao, I didn't text you about yesterday's crafting hangout because I figured you'd be either exhausted or busy and apparently it was both. Thank you for helping F out, it sounds like you got a lot of stuff done!

I think we actually don't need a registry right this minute because we're going to combine two apartments of stuff and I'm sure we'll be missing some extremely weird stuff. But I'm contemplating requesting used tools because I know people have duplicates of things and I have No Tools. Like, I'm going to borrow C's tools to rebuild the stairs before we move in. But nothing new until we are settled in. Nothing! I did buy sheet pans today at bed bath and beyohnd (I was there for work related reasons) but that's because I was suffering without them and I can always use more sheet pans.

[(Anonymous)]

(it's me my stupid password still isn't reset, i am waiting until i get new computer and hopefully some executive functions) Fi does definitely own some tools, I know she has a cordless drill, and Dad wouldn't have let her out of the house without the basics, though how many of them she'll be able to find is anyone's guess. Presumably in the move she'll find the rest.
but I can only imagine the shortage of tools.

LOL I just packed all of Fiona's sheet pans because she was definitely not using them. She has four brand new ones, never used. i contemplated saving them out and giving them to you but couldn't think when I'd see you next.

[unicornduke]

Yeah, I mean, I've got some basic basic tools like a little cordless drill and a wrench set and things. But like, I don't have a circular saw. I need a circular saw! For many things! Stuff like that. And levels! And T's! and L's! And other things that I can't remember right now lol.

Ha! I should have asked about pans, but that's okay! The more pans, the merrier. Worst case, I can use some for Projects.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, Mom gave me Dad's circular saw for Christmas, but I don't think I'll use it in Buffalo, so maybe that should come back to y'all. It's in a *huge* homemade custom wooden case, it's kind of adorably clunky. But I do have an extra level, I bought one and then Dude did not look and bought a second one.

[unicornduke]

Well, not until after we move in lol. I can borrow the necessary tools to do a few things and I can get an inventory of things I want while I do that. And then I will see about asking folks for stuff.