Just posting through it

[unicornduke]

Written last night: 

I went and got the rest of my stuff today. it was supposed to be a doctors appointment too but I just canceled that. It was my endo at the trans clinic in ny but I just need to find a provider down here and I couldn't bear to deal with the complications of insurance/lack of that is my life right now. I got the big truck, supplies and hit the road early.

Got to the house around 11am, loaded all my stuff up and hit the road around 3pm, stopping at the grocery store for cheese and crackers. the only things left are the 12 ft boards and the cut up fencing which F said was fine to leave. She's unsure if she's going to be able to keep the house in the end, there's lots of fuckery with the bank, so I committed to getting the boards and fencing by June.

I had to stop only once to adjust straps on the load, which was great considering I didn't pack it particularly well by my standards. Lots of oddly shaped things. Two rocking chairs, three rolls of fencing, chop saw. Things like that. Awkward. Tarped everything.

Thankfully mostly missed the absolute whopper of a thunderstorm that was rotating north west through the area I was driving, only five minutes of downpour where I had windshield wipers on full blast and I slowed down. south of me, that storm was popping up flood warnings behind it, so I really wanted to get through it. There is no cover at the farm when I got home with all the equipment we had stored, so I left the truck out but tarp on, parked on a small slope. Nothing in there should be super ruined by rain, it's mostly stuff from the shed with a few exceptions.

I think one piece of china might have cracked from the potholes and those rode in the passenger seat so they were as cushioned as they could be. I also got the giant hunk of lard from the freezer, that's living in the church fridge for now and I'll have to process it in the next two weeks or so. But I can do it in the church so I don't stink up the house.

I'm so tired. The antibiotics are kicking my ass and I almost didn't make the run to get my stuff. Bedtime now.

This morning writing:

Feeling much refreshed from a long sleep. Busy day today, unloading the truck into the barn, getting my next rabies shot. I got a call from someone at the hospital on monday about billing and she said I was likely to be covered and to bring some paperwork with me and she would help with the application for health care and all that jazz. Then farming. Always more farming.

Everything is so wet right now

Comments

[reedrover]

I’m glad you may have help at the hospital over billing!

Everything is so wet right now… and I’m shearing on Friday.

[unicornduke]

Ooof, hope everyone dries out in time!

[graydon]

It is wet; the forecast has been "sunny tomorrow, whups, day after tomorrow" for a week or so now up here.

Chop saw and rocking chairs is no-question hard mode; glad it's over for a good while.

Crossing fingers for billing help!

[unicornduke]

Squishy wet, giving me time to get the irrigation work done. I'm hitting the point where I'm tired of all my shit being packed away in random places. All of this load went into the barn. I must be patient.

[ranunculus]

I'll swap you some of your rain for our 90F temps! It is already drying up here, and with another year of really good winter rains that means high fire danger. There have been a couple of little fires in the last week.

[unicornduke]

I'll take the rain to be honest! It's saving my butt since our irrigation needs to be fixed before we can run it. That's on my list for today. I hope for a quiet and uneventful fire season for you.