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whodat111/susan posted an update Sunday, Feb 27, 2022, 4:43am EST, 2 years, 2 months ago
Hi Potties!
Katie - I'm digging thru an amazing amount of carnival glass (especially vases) & plates/platters with deer or elk on them. I haven't even gotten to the room with the Christmas stuff. Sadly, the house itself is unsalvageable. It's a 1984 model, 24x48 doublewide & it probably was never expected to last more than about 20 years. Bear had replaced the floors in the master bedroom & bath, plus some of the laundry/kitchen area. The rest of the flooring has pretty much collapsed. I just walk on the joists to get from place to place in the majority of the rooms. Much of the paper & fabric in the house is ruined since there's been no HVAC since 2011 when we remarried & combined houses (mine being larger & newer). Now that we're getting some days with 70's temperatures, I hope to be able to spend more time sorting & gathering trash in hopes of figuring out what's left to deal with.
I had no plans for today, other than watching the NASCAR Xfinity race but my neighbor, Dennis, called to tell me that our neighborhood handyman was at his house & had some time to help me. Didn't take me but a minute to take him up on that. I had Tomas up on the roof to remove the last of the fallen leaves within 20 minutes. I also had several boxes of "stuff" for Goodwill & they were heavier than I needed to move, so the fellows put them in the car for me so I can drop them off when I go to pay the booth rent next week.
As I mentioned earlier, I had finally gotten a smaller U-Haul storage room, so we went over there & the fellows got me out of the big room & into the slightly smaller/cheaper one in about 30 minutes. I'm really glad to have that taken care of. Now I need to spend a bit more time sorting thru that stuff in hopes of eventually not needing a space at all.
It chilled off a bit on Sat. & it's just now started raining. I'm hoping the rain will have moved on thru by the time the race comes on mid-afternoon Sun. since I sometimes have DirecTV reception issues when there's weather.
I have 2 boxes of books ready to take to the PO when I go out on Wed. to pay the booth rent & will drop off the Goodwill boxes at the same time. Now that gas has gone up (thanks Putin!) I try & make all my errands fit into one extended trip. I just make a big circle & that way the car only moves again if I decide to drive up to the mailbox to keep it from overflowing.
The zoo says it's time to think about serving supper so I guess I'd best bestir myself. I'm not terribly impressed with the current book so I need to decide if I should perserver (sp) or just give up & move on to something else.
Everybody take care. Most of us need to try & stay warm; Gordon & Sylvia - try & stay dry. Things look rough down your way. Later.
Susan