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Post by maryaz on Oct 30, 2019 8:40:53 GMT -5
Thank you Arid and phoenixcat I think a lot of it is there is just no *** more space in this house. Along with I'll be in ahurry and leave something there to deal with later. Something to think on/ work on. I have been AWOL for a bit due to alot of things but I have made outside progress. However the inside of the house is worse than ever. PASTED from a previous post: THE MAJOR BIG GIANT LIST OF STUFF THAT I NEED, WANT, HAVE TO GET DONE BY THE END OF THE YEAR!clear the bottom lot so the well driller can get in.I have been working on this and have made some progress. Still some junk metal, my daughters disabled vehicle, roll of chain link fence, some fence posts and other things in the way along with part of a pile of wood chips.Fence:I need to set two gate posts and put up the gates I bought across the driveway. I need to run some fence between chicken / garden areas so that dog can run the whole space without digging up gardens. Rough estimate 250-300 linear feet, which means pounding 25-30 T-posts in, plus probably some extras for gates and braces.Storage building: Once the well is done I can assess the amount of money I have left and consider getting a portable shed building to handle tools, feed and other things from the house. (Internal debate has been: well a 12x20 is $6,000 delivered and set up.... how much more would a 20x30 two story cost...)Once the storage building is done and major things out of the house, I can fix the corner of the kitchen where the woodcook stove is going to live....Greenhouse: once the storage building question is settled I need a major greenhouse. I have been collecting glass doors and windows for one for years.Can all of that happen in 6 months?? Probably not! There is just me! But a bunch of this can happen. I am hoping that the well will be finished by the end of August.So the well driller hasn't answered me in a month, will text him again. Space is open and ready for him. The fence is finished so dog can run loose. Poor thing is exhausted, there are 2 packs of coyotes and they are coming in and testing the fences. I'm picking up a 9 mo old this afternoon to help him out. Mostly a German Shepherd mix, he's calm for his age but I won't trust him alone with chickens until he's older. The weather has finally cooled off and we've had a light frost. There's no way I'm getting a storage building any time soon and I won't manage a greenhouse build this year. Focus in the coming weeks will be working with new dog to teach him what I want him to know; reinforce some sections of fence that are on the short side because I don't need him jumping/climbing out when I do let him out on his own. Work on clearing some crap out of the house so I can access the wood stove and have heat. Working on gardens because with some protection I can grow all winter and I need to up my cash flow desperately.
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Post by artax on Oct 30, 2019 15:02:17 GMT -5
Welcome back! How cool, to have a pup companion and a long-term goal to have a greenhouse! Where I live we just get too much hail to make that feasible (and we'd have to jump a bunch of Home Owner's Association hoops.) Bestest wishes in your journey, Artax
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Post by maryaz on Nov 29, 2019 18:58:33 GMT -5
Woot! Backagain! I've been gone a couple weeks because my laptopwould not boot up; like the lights would light and it would make noise but the screen was totally black. My IT friend hasbeen onvacation so couldn't look at it. Then today I wasn't thinking about anything in particular but it was closed and whirring. Voice in the back of my mind says "Try turning it off and turn it on again and hold the F1 button. So I did. Andbingo it's working again tho the space bar and some otherkeys are sticking; I"ll have to see if I have any morecanned air. Its been raining most of the time since about 3AM; pretty sure I've gotten over2" Some is runningoff but not violently. I've donesome dishesand made a pot of soup. I took all the boxes of magazines for my son to his house yesterday. That meant I could move the big incubator out of the way to get to the wood stove so I could makefire. Goodthing; we are having a major winter storm andwhile I'mmostly just getting rain there is snow on all the mountains around me. So I might do a bit of cleaning up in the LR ina few. Thank you artax I refuse to live where there are HOAs and if I keep things under 120 sq ft I don't need a permit
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Post by maryaz on Dec 1, 2019 10:32:53 GMT -5
Good morning; A chilly Sunday here, tho the sun is finally peeking over the hill.
Today's house chores are Laundry litterboxes dump the dead (stuff in the kitchen)
Outdoor chores are turn the compost plant the chard seedlings bail water off tarps move some chickens around fix tarps and things; more rain expected Wednesday
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Post by maryaz on May 4, 2020 9:28:18 GMT -5
Good Morning! Boy didn't realize how long it'd been since I was on here, but I"ve been BUSY! There is not a lot of visible improvement on the inside of the house but I have made small amounts of progress outside. And I am working on building a small shed. Once done it will be a place to store feed, tools and other things which will free up a great deal of space in the house so I can get to other things.
I hope everyone is doing OK. I"m in a rural county with only 12 confirmed cases at the moment. Hoping things stay low but urgh. the people that don't follow rules. Enough of that tho.
I'm still trying to find ways and systems that will work for me. Dusted off my old SLOB sisters file box and reset it. Still sitting there. Don't really want to do sticky notes all over. I did discover that there is such a thing as peel and stick white board. So I got a huge one and a box of magnetic markers and put it on my freezer which is in my front entry. Most of that board is taken up with my customer and order list. At the bottom there was still space so I made a list of the next steps of the shed build. Then I divided my old smaller board into squares: Garden, Chickens, House, Other and put up daily dos there in red- the 2=3 most important things to do in that area today, with a couple less important things in other colors. That idea is helping.
Paperwork is still the bane of my existence.
Off to work, catch ya'll later
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Post by maryaz on May 13, 2020 17:01:35 GMT -5
Well I have managed to do what seemed impossible. When I moved home almost 17 months ago I had something like 45,000 emails. Yep FORTY FIVE THOUSAND EMAILS. I managed in a year, a few at a time, to get under 30,000. And then in the past two weeks I've really focused on getting rid of all those emails. I am now down to under 1,000. Some are links to articles and things I wanted to read so have been doing some of that then deleting them. Others are receipts for either money I've spent or received and I need to print them out for taxes. So I will be doing some of that shortly.
Sometimes the paperwork / taxes . stuff mess has been so overwhelming it's paralyzing. My desk was piled up with so many papers and reciepts and things were falling off onto the floor and well you can imagine. So I just started with what was in front of me. Reciepts I need to put in quickbooks. Of course QB gave me fits and wanted a password I couldn't remember and it only took about 2 hours to find the answer, download the special app and get the *** thing unlocked so I could start.... BUT I have most of 2020's reciepts entered and most of 2020s income put in along with bits from other years. So that feels good. Finding a 3 year old check I never cashed, not so much....
But I will try to remember if I can't decide what to do or where to start, to just do the thing right in front of me or whatever comes to my hand first. Even if I just dust it off and move it, I did something. And things seem to snowball from there....
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Post by joyinvirginia on May 14, 2020 9:23:46 GMT -5
Glad you have made such great progress Maryaz! Those paper piles and electronic stuff just keep pulling up without constant vigilance. You are so right, do one thing with a pile and it inspires me to do one more thing. Good you are working on the taxes. so glad deadline was pushed back this year!
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