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Apr. 11th, 2025 07:55 pmWednesday night, I took the big truck and myself and a fuckload of tarps and ratchet straps up to NY. I was determined. I was Getting Everything.
lol no
But I got up there Wed night and chatted with F about what the plan was, all the stuff I was taking and what was going to happen. During this conversation, she said "oh I wasn't sure if you were taking the fencing, so I figured I could give it to Farm BIL". me: wtf. I absolutely said multiple times that I was taking the fencing. I understand she's stressed. She didn't contemplate much of how the mortgage thing was going to work until like, beginning of March, but she said she was going to handle it, so I am letting her handle it. So she's finally scheduled her refinancing which will be June 2. And the bear came by and rummaged through many things and also pulled down a light fixture because it thought it was a bird feeder. But also, whatever.
I got up in the morning and ran over to the uhaul place and picked up a trailer. It's one of the 5x9's with a ramp and it's a nice solid little high sided trailer. I took it back and unhitched it in the driveway and started loading my truck. I laid a tarp down in the bed and then tucked another one just under the front of that one and flopped it over the top of the cab while I packed. I had a couple bins and boxes but the main thing was all of my spinning wheels and my skein reel. They are large, hard to stack and delicate antiques.
So I used the bins and boxes as my base and then set the great wheel laid down first, padded with dog beds. Then I put blankets on top of it and the boxes and foam and laid the two CPW wheels on top of those plus B's tiny wheel. My flax wheel rode shotgun in the cab. Then I took the bases of the wheels and put some on top of the extra foam and then added some more flat bins and set them on there.
I paused packing and went to my doctors appointment. F offered to let me use her car, which I did borrow and it was very helpful, so I didn't need to strap down the truck mid packing and drive around with it more than necessary. This was another teach appointment for my testosterone shots. I successfully did do the thing! Hated it so much omg. Took me three tries. I am apparently facing many things I fear (stabbing myself, ladders). I got my prescriptions renewed and some supplies yay! This appointment did start 20 mins late and also ran pretty long. I then dropped the spare shearing clippers J had lent me at a farm he'll be shearing at soon (with their permission) and headed home.
Then I tried to get my reel and desk chair up in the back of the truck. And accidentally knocked the base of my reel off the tailgate of the truck and it hit a small table on the way down and broke. The table has split straight down the middle clean, so I should be able to glue it back together pretty easily. This is also around the time I got angry, hungry and dehydrated probably so I was not having a good time. I packed more stuff in the bed of the truck, as much as I could manage, with the desk chair laying facedown on the boxes and the reel laying on it's side on the back of the chair since it was soft and that was the best I could do. I flipped the top tarp down over the whole load of stuff, strapped everything down, jammed the tarp edges down between the stuff and the bed and tied down the back.
Then I hooked the trailer back up and loaded that. First in was the small chest freezer full of frozen things. I brought a dolly with me and it was remarkably easy to get it into the trailer, way easier than I thought it would be by myself. Then I put the snowblower behind it and some cabinets. I got F's help to load up my workbench, which I decided I was going to take because it's a nice workbench. This was another object that F was like, oh I wasn't sure if you were taking that. I packed things under the bench and behind the bench. I absolutely could have packed more things on the trailer if I had more time, but it was getting to 3:30pm with last leave time of 4pm and I still had to tarp and strap and talk to F.
The tarping and strapping went quickly and easily, the talking to F because incredibly annoying very quickly. The things I left in the house were: a lamp, weights and one display board. I left some more stuff outside and in the shed and she pointed at everything I left asking if I was taking all of those things. After the fifth or sixth thing, I snapped that I was taking all of the things that I hadn't explicitly said I was leaving behind and I would be back for them in May or June. I deliberately prioritized getting the stuff out of the house so she could have that space to use, but apparently she just was going to try and keep more of my stuff or give it away???? I was pissed at her and me at this point and thinking about the weather and sunset and the long fucking drive I had. I just told her I'd be back for my stuff and feel free to move it around, but I'd get it out of her hair.
Then I hit the road. I headed to the pharmacy 20 mins away and got my prescriptions (except for the actual needles, so I need to figure out how I'm going to pick those up. I have four that the RN gave me, so I have some starting point but idek), checked all my straps and tightened them down and adjusted the mirror that was out of wack and hit the actual road. Leave time 5pm with a 4 hour drive. I stopped once to add more straps to the trailer because the tarp was flapping too much.
There was a hairy 45 minutes around 8:00pm where the sun had set and it was pouring rain and I had just gotten off the highway and the road they laid in the last two years as very shiny in the rain and I couldn't see shit including if the trailer was still okay behind me. And then it started snowing. I stopped in a tiny town to refuel and update my parents, stretch my legs and after that it was smooth sailing. Five minutes down the road, the snow pretty much stopped, there was very little traffic and I got home around 9:15. Dad helped me find a place to park everything under cover and then I went inside and tried to relax. It was pretty chilly, so I wasn't worried about the frozen stuff, so I literally brought in my backpack and the bag of food that ended up on the trailer and went to bed.
This morning I got up, ravenous because I didn't actually eat dinner, just driving snacks. Ate, showered, felt like a real person again. Then I had to unload everything. I had only put a few things behind the chest freezer, so it was pretty simple to get it out and into the house along with my bulk food bin. Then everything else from the trailer went into the barn (workbench which I just dragged out, snowblower, lawnmower, AC unit (might go to shed), some cabinets), and I dropped the trailer. Then took the truck over to the shed and unloaded almost everything else. A few things went back to the house once I uncovered them. There's still space open in the shed, but that's because I'm great at packing.
The spinning wheels all made it intact thankfully and the tarps on the truck kept everything nice and dry. The tarp on the trailer did less good of a job but I didn't put anything back there that couldn't take a little wet or I didn't care much about.
I got the trailer to the rental place around 10am.
And then I worked on raspberry pruning all afternoon. I'm tired and sore today and grumpy about how the trip went. I knew that was a possibility that I'd run short on time, so I know better for next time I guess.
lol no
But I got up there Wed night and chatted with F about what the plan was, all the stuff I was taking and what was going to happen. During this conversation, she said "oh I wasn't sure if you were taking the fencing, so I figured I could give it to Farm BIL". me: wtf. I absolutely said multiple times that I was taking the fencing. I understand she's stressed. She didn't contemplate much of how the mortgage thing was going to work until like, beginning of March, but she said she was going to handle it, so I am letting her handle it. So she's finally scheduled her refinancing which will be June 2. And the bear came by and rummaged through many things and also pulled down a light fixture because it thought it was a bird feeder. But also, whatever.
I got up in the morning and ran over to the uhaul place and picked up a trailer. It's one of the 5x9's with a ramp and it's a nice solid little high sided trailer. I took it back and unhitched it in the driveway and started loading my truck. I laid a tarp down in the bed and then tucked another one just under the front of that one and flopped it over the top of the cab while I packed. I had a couple bins and boxes but the main thing was all of my spinning wheels and my skein reel. They are large, hard to stack and delicate antiques.
So I used the bins and boxes as my base and then set the great wheel laid down first, padded with dog beds. Then I put blankets on top of it and the boxes and foam and laid the two CPW wheels on top of those plus B's tiny wheel. My flax wheel rode shotgun in the cab. Then I took the bases of the wheels and put some on top of the extra foam and then added some more flat bins and set them on there.
I paused packing and went to my doctors appointment. F offered to let me use her car, which I did borrow and it was very helpful, so I didn't need to strap down the truck mid packing and drive around with it more than necessary. This was another teach appointment for my testosterone shots. I successfully did do the thing! Hated it so much omg. Took me three tries. I am apparently facing many things I fear (stabbing myself, ladders). I got my prescriptions renewed and some supplies yay! This appointment did start 20 mins late and also ran pretty long. I then dropped the spare shearing clippers J had lent me at a farm he'll be shearing at soon (with their permission) and headed home.
Then I tried to get my reel and desk chair up in the back of the truck. And accidentally knocked the base of my reel off the tailgate of the truck and it hit a small table on the way down and broke. The table has split straight down the middle clean, so I should be able to glue it back together pretty easily. This is also around the time I got angry, hungry and dehydrated probably so I was not having a good time. I packed more stuff in the bed of the truck, as much as I could manage, with the desk chair laying facedown on the boxes and the reel laying on it's side on the back of the chair since it was soft and that was the best I could do. I flipped the top tarp down over the whole load of stuff, strapped everything down, jammed the tarp edges down between the stuff and the bed and tied down the back.
Then I hooked the trailer back up and loaded that. First in was the small chest freezer full of frozen things. I brought a dolly with me and it was remarkably easy to get it into the trailer, way easier than I thought it would be by myself. Then I put the snowblower behind it and some cabinets. I got F's help to load up my workbench, which I decided I was going to take because it's a nice workbench. This was another object that F was like, oh I wasn't sure if you were taking that. I packed things under the bench and behind the bench. I absolutely could have packed more things on the trailer if I had more time, but it was getting to 3:30pm with last leave time of 4pm and I still had to tarp and strap and talk to F.
The tarping and strapping went quickly and easily, the talking to F because incredibly annoying very quickly. The things I left in the house were: a lamp, weights and one display board. I left some more stuff outside and in the shed and she pointed at everything I left asking if I was taking all of those things. After the fifth or sixth thing, I snapped that I was taking all of the things that I hadn't explicitly said I was leaving behind and I would be back for them in May or June. I deliberately prioritized getting the stuff out of the house so she could have that space to use, but apparently she just was going to try and keep more of my stuff or give it away???? I was pissed at her and me at this point and thinking about the weather and sunset and the long fucking drive I had. I just told her I'd be back for my stuff and feel free to move it around, but I'd get it out of her hair.
Then I hit the road. I headed to the pharmacy 20 mins away and got my prescriptions (except for the actual needles, so I need to figure out how I'm going to pick those up. I have four that the RN gave me, so I have some starting point but idek), checked all my straps and tightened them down and adjusted the mirror that was out of wack and hit the actual road. Leave time 5pm with a 4 hour drive. I stopped once to add more straps to the trailer because the tarp was flapping too much.
There was a hairy 45 minutes around 8:00pm where the sun had set and it was pouring rain and I had just gotten off the highway and the road they laid in the last two years as very shiny in the rain and I couldn't see shit including if the trailer was still okay behind me. And then it started snowing. I stopped in a tiny town to refuel and update my parents, stretch my legs and after that it was smooth sailing. Five minutes down the road, the snow pretty much stopped, there was very little traffic and I got home around 9:15. Dad helped me find a place to park everything under cover and then I went inside and tried to relax. It was pretty chilly, so I wasn't worried about the frozen stuff, so I literally brought in my backpack and the bag of food that ended up on the trailer and went to bed.
This morning I got up, ravenous because I didn't actually eat dinner, just driving snacks. Ate, showered, felt like a real person again. Then I had to unload everything. I had only put a few things behind the chest freezer, so it was pretty simple to get it out and into the house along with my bulk food bin. Then everything else from the trailer went into the barn (workbench which I just dragged out, snowblower, lawnmower, AC unit (might go to shed), some cabinets), and I dropped the trailer. Then took the truck over to the shed and unloaded almost everything else. A few things went back to the house once I uncovered them. There's still space open in the shed, but that's because I'm great at packing.
The spinning wheels all made it intact thankfully and the tarps on the truck kept everything nice and dry. The tarp on the trailer did less good of a job but I didn't put anything back there that couldn't take a little wet or I didn't care much about.
I got the trailer to the rental place around 10am.
And then I worked on raspberry pruning all afternoon. I'm tired and sore today and grumpy about how the trip went. I knew that was a possibility that I'd run short on time, so I know better for next time I guess.
