Appreciate it, but that's one of the stressful bits: everything has to be out by Friday morning for the official settlement. There can theoretically be compromise on this but I don't want to risk it. The new folks wanted to get their contractor in even before I left... they are antsy because they want it remodeled and ready for a Christmas move-in. And there will be more to do than they think.

It's getting less stressful because the moving guys are excellent and they are really getting it done.

I was thrown a horrible curve because my friend is helping me move the turtle, his wife's MRI results came back with a brain lesion yesterday. Made my problem seem tiny in comparison.

And I do have heat, although I had to reboot the furnace.

I do believe this is the most tired I have been since the infamous cross-country ski weekend where they forced us at gunpoint to run trails all day and fed us only one meal of gruel. I'm 49, that weekend was when I was 19.

Tonight I have to move the turtle. Tomorrow I have to throw out everything left in the old place. Friday I have to go to settlement in the morning and probably stay there all day. Saturday I work the shop during the day and play Burning Bird at night. Sunday will be the first rest. I expect to sleep in.

Good luck tomorrow and Friday, UT. Sorry for your pain; every time I've moved, I've sworn I'll never do it again!

Hang in there and focus on how good sleeping in on Sunday will feel.

Hang in there Bro. You're almost home.

How's it going today UT?

Yeah, UT, how're things?

I actually feel your pain. Physically. It's concentrated in the knees and lower back.

Apart from narcotics, liquid Advil is da best. I take 4 200mg every day just to move. But I still hurt.

It'll get done. You'll settle in. It takes a good while no matter who you are or what you have. My thoughts are with you this thursday morning. and they will be more so on Friday. :flower: and XO

eta: I know from moving PITA. I moved 10 times in 7 years. When I got to this pixie hollow I swore: they're gonna take me outta here in a box.

Last night a friend helped move the turtle and cleared half the garage. I dtruly didn't realize how much work had to be done and how much dust it would generate in the process. Got back at 11:30, slept in this morning until 9:30! Now today I have to do it again and I'm renting an SUV so I can throw shit in there if I fill the dumpster!

GAH it's horrible! But the great news is, with my stuff in it, with the heat and dehumidifer going, the farmhouse is better than I thought. It's really "me" and also, my allergic cough seems to be improved overnight. Maybe the old house was more toxic than I thought. Now to shower, medicate Pearl and myself, and begin the long grueling final day.

Good luck today!

It's great that you can already see that the new place is you (we knew it anyway!). You really are on the homeward stretch now!

Movin'
On a Thursday afternoon
Really couldn't get away too soon


Glad you're liking the place!

this new place---it IS hobbit worthy, right?

Pics or it never happened

You're doing great, hard work UT. Good man.

One more day and it'll all come together ...
Glad it's feeling right. Good sign. Good luck today!

UnderToad:

Youa gonna geta biggga box in the next week or whatevah.

It's not anything you can use but I want you to know right here, right now: it is NOT a bomb, okay? Or a toy car. But the box is the size of - well, it's huge. But only b/c I was too lazy and hot and tired and my fucking knees are killing me that I got such a big box for such a small thing. But it will be YOUR thing and I HOPE HOPE HOPE it makes you laugh at your home the way I laugh at mine.

But remembah- bigga box but no-a dangerous, K?

thank you lots! just checking in it is 115 and i am not done and walkthrough is 830 i have to return and get one more truckload fuck me this is horrible and if i survive i shall throw out everything worldly possessions are a fraud good night

Nearly there, mate. You're nearly there. X

Sent by thought transference.

One foot in front of the other til it's done, old bean.

*sending warm thoughts and a cup of something soothing*

ah, very poor timing on my part. I apologize. It's a small thing, it will make you laugh and you WILL come to treasure it, you hear me? YOU WILL!

;)

or you can chuck it. Either way.

PS: if the farm house doesn't work out you can probably LIVE in the box (j/k)

after thinking it over, Tony, I haven't sent it yet and iffen you don't want it-no problem. I can keep it. let me know after a bit how you're feeling on 'stuff' as George Carlin says.

Last day, UT. Good luck ... and after the paperwork's done, take a loonngg nap.
Hope all goes smoothly!

I'm gonna go look at an apartment 5 minutes away from my work today. 3 hours in the car each day is becoming intollerably annoying (8.5 years now). Money saved on gas, tolls and demo should all but pay my rent.

I have re-thought my position, Toad.

I'll just send the equivalent of the gift in what you can use:


$

It was just a framed Brian Froud print anyway (of a rock door opening into a hobbit hut) No biggie. I can keep it.

word.

My sister figures she spends 500/month on gas. And we don't have tolls.

Jim, if that works out, it will be a huge improvement to your quality of life. You won't know what to do with all your free time.

Let's see. 3 hours, times 5 days a week, times 50 weeks a year, times 8.5 years. That's 6,375 hours.

What's the saying? You need to spend 10,000 hours doing something to become an expert at it? Dude. Don't give up now!

I would love to not have the commute, but I won't live in this armpit that smells like a fat rendering plant.

i kid about the material posessions

it is done. i am no longer a homeowner

now moar sleep

Well done that Toad!

How's Pearl coping with the upheaval?

Way to go!

This place could work.

Bottom half of a big old house. Big front porch. Garage! Basement! The kitchen is nasty, but they are going to replace the counters.

Quiet, shady street. I could ride a bike to work, its so close.

Once I factor in utilities, tv, cable, insurance.... $1100/ month?

I spend $600/ mo on gas. That should drop to maybe $200.... I'll save $120 on tolls..... My demo allowance will be $400 Thats $920....

I think I will do this.


Probably .

As Griff said: Immediate contentment:

http://cellar.org/2012/pearlnewhome.jpg

She had been having arrhythmia every day for four days. Now in the new place, nothing for the last two. And it's been nothing but change: new smells, boxes covering every spot of space, new layout... but it's the same old bed, same old owner, just figuring out where to pee.

She has labored breathing sometimes, which is new, but that's what the Lasix is for and extra doses of it keep her comfortable.

I'm really glad that at least she will have had at least a little time at the new place.

those are the best kinds of apartments. All of my old places were in big old houses...3 of them being the old servants' quarters.

I can't imagine why anyone would live in an apartment complex...unless you were in the middle of a city or something.

Do it, jim...sounds awesome!

Glad Pearl is well, UT.

Ohhh look ather little face. She looks comfy and warm :)

So glad to hear she's settling in well. Showing you a good example!

Sent by thought transference.

I let her out thinking she had to poo, but instead she headed right down the hill to the trail in the woods.

Since she's deaf I can't call her. I have to follow her so she doesn't go too far.

http://cellar.org/2012/pearltrail.jpg

She is loving this entirely new set of smells. Even all the floors are different. I wonder what she is learning.

http://cellar.org/2012/pearlfloor.jpg

hahahah nose to the ground as she goes. She looks like she is concentrating really hard.

That is so great!

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So glad she's interested and exploring! Nice to see the pics. :) As long as she has you everything in her world is good. Hope you're also doing okay - at long last things are done, right?

I don't know if it's just the rebound from all the work I put in for the last few days, but tonight, I feel *great* about this.

Downsizing means my biggest problem now is trying to sort through the 50 boxes filling the 3 rooms on ground level. It really means I've done what I should have done years ago: find a little unique space and make it my own. I know you know what I mean!!

:)

I do.

Reminds me of a part in St Elmos's Fire, where the rich girl gets her own little apartment and says (paraphrase): i made a peanut butter sandwich, and it was my peanut butter, and my bread... (something like that.)

Pearl is doing doggy things...so cute.

I'm so glad things are better for the both of you and now you can relax and settle which is the fun part.

You and Pearl have both found your groove. Good stuff.

Happy for you Tony. Sounds like all the work has been worth it. The stress removal is probably incalculable. Good for you.

I have a two bedroom house, one bedroom for me, and one bedroom for stuff... and boy is it stuffed. :haha:

I have a one bedroomed house. With a single main room downstairs. Tiny rooms at that. Colloquially known as a 'one up one down'. It's also a 'back to back'. There's no back door. The back of my house is the back of another house facing in the opposite direction. I am surrounded (as in share walls with) on three sides by neighbours.




And my puppy has recently discovered the unparralleled joys of a fucking good bark.

Update, ha ha no I don't have heat. Rebooting the furnace doesn't work any longer, and now I must call for service. Meanwhile, the space heater and the computer beat a 15A circuit. And it can pleasantly wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow it'll be 65 degrees F.

It will take a little while to learn the idiosyncrasies of the new (old) place. You're kinda like Pearl, checking stuff out, except you probably use your nose less. ;)

maybe don't pee on every damn thing either

When you push the reset button on the burner, does it try to start... like make all the clicks and whirrs but shuts down in less than a minute without firing?

Yes exactly

You have fuel?

You may just need to bleed the fuel line. There is a little chrome bolt with a nipple somewhere.

Yep over 1/2 a tank. I did see a Youtuber on bleeding the line. I will give that a try first, that seems simple enough. (And yet they won't tell anyone to try it because it's fuel and 1 out of 100 will kill themselves.)

I must say I was very satisfied with the heat while it was on. It was hot.

If you haven't had a pro come out and service it, you should really do that. I always did it once a year. they need to clean the burner, and the chimney. If you have blockage in your exhaust, you could kill/injure yourself with the carbon monoxide. A service call should cost around $100. Wingard Oil was my local company in Elverson 610-286.5300 Tom is a nice guy. Sam was a good honest tech.

maybe give them a try if you don't have someone you trust near by.

Yes, get a CO detector. Probably saved my life in my finished basement in my house years ago.

And Sam's experiences are proof positive of the potential consequences of a slow non-lethal dose.

"There was a mouse here in 1942. Yeah, a mouse. And a cat. Smells like the cat got the mouse. Over here I smell a possum, 1954 vintage, by the bouquet. I love possum, I wonder where it went. Imma pretend I have to pee, when I get outside Imma hunt possum. Or maybe squirrel."

that's the good kind!

Brilliant! And accurate, too :)

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