Owning a business whose parts are delivered on pallets and building a structure/homestead/compound whose waste cannot be tossed in the local weekly trash collection results in a messiness everywhere. Even when attempting to contain said mess it spills out and ends up taking over the whole property. It happens slowly so that the mess almost goes by unnoticed. Almost. It drives me crazy. I have to see it, mow around it, and be reminded by it that we are living…
Out of the steps in getting electricity, pulling cable is the worst. Too many bends in the PVC, too many pieces of cable for the PVC size, too thick of cable to bend and pull at such long distances. As with all other electrical pulls, we started with a kite string attached to a tiny piece of plastic that was sucked through the PVC with a shop vac. When the tiny kite string and plastic snippet doesn’t want to pull…
I don’t know how you feel about it, but to me ever since The Hole to Nowhere BIF is forever digging holes and shoveling trenches. Planner dug holes, Kid dug holes, and Doggo dug holes. Holes for fun, holes for poles, holes for water. Tractor dug trenches, hand dug trenches, Kid dug trenches. Trenches for electrical, trenches for water/sewer, and trenches for internet. There are so many trenches crisscrossing the property that last year I created a cheat sheet showing…
Time flies. We all know this rationally but mentally is a different story. Day to day living is just busy with the day to day living responsibilities. Two floor shellac test samples were done way back in March when with Bathroom Ceiling Shellac. Three full months have come and gone. Sure there were materials orders, plans laid out, and procedures to procedure. But still! Needing a major step completed to make me feel as though time is not slipping away…