It's chilly

[unicornduke]

There 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:

• 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?)

I have two doctors appts in the next three weeks, both transition related. I spent some time yesterday gathering all of the work supplies I have laying around the house and shed and putting them in one spot. My parents will also be coming up at some point to pick up the flooring from the place around the corner but that depends on when they get the call that it's done. So I could put some stuff on the truck at that point, but not too much since they'll have a lot of 16ft boards in the trailer. 

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

Comments

[ranunculus]

I didn't know that about nails...
These days I almost never use them. Ranch work does seem to require vast amounts of coated deck screws though.

[graydon]

The square face/profile of the cut nail shears wood fibers, so you end up with a little tiny featherboard effect holding it in place and much less of a tendency to split the wood than a wire (round) nail. Wire nails came in because they were cheaper, and at nail volumes any lowered production cost adds up.

A modern rolled-thread screw even before it gets coated is a better fastener in nearly all applications, but even with a brace you can't drive screws anything like as fast as you can drive nails. It takes effective battery powered drivers to make screws ubiquitous. And in the tongue and groove flooring application, you have to pre-drill for screws and you have to cover or fill over the screw heads, where you can drive cut nails in at a small angle through the base of the tongues and tap them down flush, hiding the faint glitter of the nail head with the next board.

[ranunculus]

Thank you, that makes sense. I've long disliked round nails because they don't stay put.
Almost everything I do is very rough carpentry. Have done some furniture making in the long past, but the Ranch usually needs something much less refined.