Lex is off at the “office” today, and I’m here at the house. I’m piddling around and have emptied the holding tanks, I did the huge stack of dishes and put them away, stored some things in the basement hold, and tried once again to get that damned interior water filter disconnected. It’s just not happening. I don’t have the right tools. Need to hit Home Depot or somewhere and get the right kind of screwdriver.
Our trash is crammed full, and apparently the garbage pickup is only once a week out here. I’ve been taking overflow garbage back to the complex and putting it in the dumpsters there. I’m thinking that once we are settled in and aren’t throwing out packing materials and other junk that our regular household trash should be accommodated by the garbage can we’ve bought. If it’s not, we might have to get a bigger one.
Well, I’m not sure how I’ll spend the rest of the day. If I was so motivated, I’d get my ass up and go over to the apartment and spend the afternoon cleaning up the last of it. I’ve been procrastinating in part because I know we have a few weeks to go, but the sooner I get done with it all, the better, I suppose. It’s hard, though, with Lex still having to work out of the apartment. She hasn’t gone through everything in her office yet since she’s still using most of it. Plus she’s showering over there and has to use the kitchen to make her lunch during the day. That means that certain things can’t really be moved out just yet.
I need to figure out what to do about our yarn/fiber stash. We sold and gave away two thirds of the stuff, but we’ve still got far too much. I also need to find a space for Lex’s wheel. I really don’t want to have to get rid of it, but space is at a serious premium around here. Maybe if I rearrange underbed storage I can free up the linen closet (which isn’t going to be holding a washer/dryer combo for quite a while at this rate. Unexpected expenses keep popping up and biting into my plan to get the hitch and the w/d by the end of the summer. As it is, it’ll be a miracle if I manage to scrape together the money for the hitch by the time I get my last summer paycheck the first week of August.
Okay, enough farting around. I’m going to grab some lunch and see about making room for the wheel and fiber. Then I can head back to the apartment, do some wash, and maybe, just maybe, bring over the yarn, fiber, and wheel. Then Lex and I will have something to do in the evenings while we watch Angel for the fifth time on DVD.
Monday evening
I got the laundry done at the apartment, and while I did that, I posted some things for sale on eBay. Every little bit of cash will help get us closer to having our hitch installed.
I took Otis with me today when I went to the apartment. He has been moping around the house, and I figured getting him out would do him good. I left the windows down so he could hang his head out and smell the world go by as I drove. When we got to the apartment, he seemed a little confused. The place doesn’t look the same empty, but I imagine it smelled pretty familiar. I put his old comforter down on the floor, and he promptly plopped down and snoozed the afternoon away.
I packed up the fiber, yarn, and wheel and brought them and Otis home around 5 p.m. It took some creative storage (using hanging shoe holders for fiber and yarn and tucking the wheel in a corner of our big closet), but I managed to get every bit of it put away. Until we get a washer/dryer, we’re fine. Once that happens, I’ll have to get even more creative with the storage since all the fiber is in the hall linen closet…aka the washer/dryer cabinet. Now I’m waiting for Lex to come home so we can have dinner. She’s tired and doesn’t feel well, and I know she just wants to chill out on the sofa and watch TV.
Bear Creek wildlife update: this evening I saw a fish leap out of the water to catch his dinner. I’ve been seeing a lot of fish come up for bugs, and I’ve even seen silver flashes from time to time, but that was the first one I saw come entirely above the surface. Awesome! I felt like I was watching a bass fishing program but without all the rednecks. I’m so tempted to fish the creek, but I know eating what I catch in these waters is a risky proposition. I’d have to catch and release, and the only problem with that is that sometimes fish get injured badly when they are caught, so the releasing is just sending them off to their doom. If they are going to be doomed, I just as soon it be because they’re headed to my belly. So I’m in a quandary about the whole fishing thing.
Oh, I also saw our friendly, neighborhood groundhog amble up out of the creek, soaking wet, and then head out into the pasture to do a little grazing. I had no idea they could swim! I’d love to catch him in the act just to see what it looks like.
Going to go load some pictures to Flickr. Good night all.
