It's chilly
Mar. 7th, 2025 10:47 amThere is currently 25mph constant wind with 50mph gusts. it just started snowing briefly. I was supposed to go to my parents this weekend. I decided not to since I despise driving in this kind of wind and highway driving with such high winds sucks so much and would suck more with a truck bed full of belongings. I did not sleep well, the wind kept pressing on the house and making it shift slightly and I woke up a lot. This weekend is for cranking through side job work and getting farm website moved over to new hosting service and *secret thing* website up and running. I took today off work for travel, but side job work mostly today.
Timeline for next few weeks:
The flooring requires two weeks of acclimation to the house, so as I anticipated, I will be living with my parents for a bit, but I'll be around to help with the flooring, so that's very good. My dad is paying extra money for special nails because he's a nerd. My belongings will be stuffed into random places, but I figured that would happen, so eh whatever. I can put some of the large things on the front porch of the farm house and cover with tarps. There's tons of storage space in the basement of the church and the parsonage basement but the church basement is stairs only, two small sets of narrow stairs and the parsonage basement is a bilco door. Although I could get stuff into the basement more easily if I pulled into the garage and through those two doors, but it would be a full set of stairs.
I'm sure I'll be back up this way at least once in April for various things, seeing friends, picking up yarn or wool from a weavers guild member who is giving things away, so it will be easy enough to pick up anything that gets left behind.
Weeeeeeeeee
Timeline for next few weeks:
March 10: give 3 weeks notice at work- March 14: load truck with stuff (the piles of boxes in my room and some small furniture items) and head to parents. goals for the weekend: move heavy stuff, unload my stuff into a random location (I think shed behind church for ease of getting stuff in and out rather than going up and down terrible stairs twice with all my shit), help with farm stuff
- March 16: come back from parents
- all the packing, everything packed and in convenient locations for moving
- March 28: last day at work
- March 28 or 29: load sensitive or delicate items (spinning wheels, plants, food, important documents, electronics, glass stuff, lamps) into my truck, head to parents, pick up their truck and their big trailer, drive back to NY, maybe my dad comes with me
- March 29 or 30: B comes over and we load all my stuff onto truck and trailer - mostly big items (bed, dresser, loom, big squashy chair, desk), outdoor stuff (grandma's rocking chairs, porch chairs, mower, snowblower, generator), tools (everything from the shed, wood that I have in the shed) and furniture plus anything else I haven't taken down yet (shelving, coffee tables?)
The flooring requires two weeks of acclimation to the house, so as I anticipated, I will be living with my parents for a bit, but I'll be around to help with the flooring, so that's very good. My dad is paying extra money for special nails because he's a nerd. My belongings will be stuffed into random places, but I figured that would happen, so eh whatever. I can put some of the large things on the front porch of the farm house and cover with tarps. There's tons of storage space in the basement of the church and the parsonage basement but the church basement is stairs only, two small sets of narrow stairs and the parsonage basement is a bilco door. Although I could get stuff into the basement more easily if I pulled into the garage and through those two doors, but it would be a full set of stairs.
I'm sure I'll be back up this way at least once in April for various things, seeing friends, picking up yarn or wool from a weavers guild member who is giving things away, so it will be easy enough to pick up anything that gets left behind.
Weeeeeeeeee