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Tuesday morning. Came up to the house and they were here putting on the final coat. He didn't get all the putty matched as well as the first section, but over all the floors look really good. I think he didn't get it sanded down as well as the first "line" of putty which he did. I am thrilled with the way he got the knothole filled in with a piece of a sapling and got it stained to match pretty good. The bad thing is the hallway is what you see first when you come in and so you see this lighter strip where the putty doesn't match. Well, it is done now. I can live with it. But I will not have anything puttied again, without it being a closer match in color. Most people probably won't notice it.
So, it is done. They are paid. I would recommend him to others, and I am very thankful that at least I can go forward from here. I asked about drying time etc.... he said that 24 hours for sock walking.... 48 for light traffic. So at least Friday before I want to do any real walking on it to make sure it is pretty hardened. That is okay. I want it good and hard before I do much traipsing across it.
It is a vast improvement over what it was before so there is no comparison.
I did something to my left shoulder last night. Nothing I can pinpoint... but the pain is through the roof when I try to move it or lift it. Not a good way to get started on serious boxing & moving of stuff. I was up half the night trying to find a position to get get comfortable so I could sleep. It is really hurting this morning. May have to see if the chiropractor is in his office.
Need to go and get a couple buckets of chicken feed this morning. They had some left when I let them out. Nothing in the trap again this morning. Caught a couple of chickens sitting in the sun yesterday picking at feathers on another one and next thing you know that they are drawing blood and then they get cannibalistic. Haven't had a bunch this cannibalistic in the last several bunches. Maybe they are just doing this to each other, and nothing/no predator is really going after the chickens during the day like I was thinking.
Had a neighbor walking this morning, by the house. She introduced herself and then I realized who she was, where she lives down the road. Wanted to talk and tell me how nice it was that the house was no longer just sitting, and was I living here now, and then how she couldn't believe the chickens would just stay in the yard there, and "chatty chatty Kathy"..... then asked if the chicken in the wire cage was okay (dead one in the trap for bait) and I said no, it's dead. I have had something getting into them so I used a dead one for bait for the trap. She was a little put off.
I am going to hate all the nosy neighbor crap here. I can see it... living is a fish bowl. Fences are going to be a priority I guess.... don't know how long I will tolerate that. It is still a good investment. I think though that I will be putting in a conventional furnace as it will sell better that way than with a wood burning outdoor furnace. Or be easier to rent if I go that route. Although I am still interested in checking out wind power.....Next year for that.
So I am going to go up and get feed and see if I can get the feeders filled and fill the waterers. Got to go by and feed the horse. Deb went back to the northern Va area where she works, but may be back wed.
Then maybe I am going to try to get all the stuff in the cabinets that is here in the kitchen and the bathroom. I did get the flex-tape down in the tub after scrubbing it out pretty good the other day. Found 3 small cracks. Not going to try to remove the black epoxy stuff they had put in the tub previously. Need to get a shower curtain rod up.
Talked to my father yesterday in NH. Not a very good discussion. My mom has stopped talking all together, and he said she basically just sits, seldoms acknowledges anyone or anything, not responsive to people talking to her or anything. I don't even know if she can walk at all as she had started to get around a little better for awhile. And he has gotten very unhappy. They won't let him drive....his reaction time is poor. But he also has not and won't make himself do the exercises that they were doing with him in rehab after the horrible stroke. He says he doesn't have time.... but with full time caregivers there, what is so time consuming for him to do????? It is an excuse to not be doing what he needs to do. I am a little sorry for him to not want it enough to do what needs doing. I hate doing some of what the PT guys tell me to do, but I want to be able to do as much as possible. And keep what I have so that when the knees are done I can get more back.
So he was bemoaning his inability to drive, and things are just day to day anymore...... He made the comment that if my mom goes then he has no reason to live. The said thing is she is gone in spirit, her body is still there but "she - the person she was" is gone. It is very sad, and since he cannot control it he is unable to deal with it. I am glad that my brother is the one to take all the grief now because I would have a hard time with the "poor me, my life has gotten so tough, I worked so hard and this is what I have now"......
For me, since I am not welcome there except for visit, it is better that I am here and doing what I can do for myself and offering to help if they want it. I always thought that my mom would someday maybe live with me or my sister if she outlived my father. But her mental deterioration has precluded that she will ever go anywhere else. At least in the scheme of things, she is not going to be like some alzheimers patients......she is unable to get up and walk away from the house, get lost or anything like that. That my father is unwilling to let me come stay there and help and would rather have outside paid help, is just a sign of his needing to be in control and "make the decisions"... It is almost funny that the son he was most at odds with when growing up... is the one he has appointed as his POA and all that.
I will remember the good times since I am not allowed to help through the tougher times.
I am going to a friends' for Thanksgiving. DS is naturally going to the gf family. I was invited but I really don't want to go there. I will go and visit with people that I can talk to and be myself with. Not have to try to find things to say like when we went on the steam train that day.... or the evening I went down for hot dogs and ran out of subjects to try to find to talk about. I am not going to spend the day feeling like the proverbial odd man out. He wants to be in the middle of a family, so god bless him with them. I am tired of it all. Just because she hunts is not much to call common interest. Maybe it is me.... I am just not a big one for all the talk and gossiping.
It was sunny earlier, but it is clouding up. Supposed to get cloudier, then have showers/rain Wed into Thursday morning. Going to be cooler, then really cooling off the end of the month. 40's and 20's.
So, it is done. They are paid. I would recommend him to others, and I am very thankful that at least I can go forward from here. I asked about drying time etc.... he said that 24 hours for sock walking.... 48 for light traffic. So at least Friday before I want to do any real walking on it to make sure it is pretty hardened. That is okay. I want it good and hard before I do much traipsing across it.
It is a vast improvement over what it was before so there is no comparison.
I did something to my left shoulder last night. Nothing I can pinpoint... but the pain is through the roof when I try to move it or lift it. Not a good way to get started on serious boxing & moving of stuff. I was up half the night trying to find a position to get get comfortable so I could sleep. It is really hurting this morning. May have to see if the chiropractor is in his office.
Need to go and get a couple buckets of chicken feed this morning. They had some left when I let them out. Nothing in the trap again this morning. Caught a couple of chickens sitting in the sun yesterday picking at feathers on another one and next thing you know that they are drawing blood and then they get cannibalistic. Haven't had a bunch this cannibalistic in the last several bunches. Maybe they are just doing this to each other, and nothing/no predator is really going after the chickens during the day like I was thinking.
Had a neighbor walking this morning, by the house. She introduced herself and then I realized who she was, where she lives down the road. Wanted to talk and tell me how nice it was that the house was no longer just sitting, and was I living here now, and then how she couldn't believe the chickens would just stay in the yard there, and "chatty chatty Kathy"..... then asked if the chicken in the wire cage was okay (dead one in the trap for bait) and I said no, it's dead. I have had something getting into them so I used a dead one for bait for the trap. She was a little put off.
I am going to hate all the nosy neighbor crap here. I can see it... living is a fish bowl. Fences are going to be a priority I guess.... don't know how long I will tolerate that. It is still a good investment. I think though that I will be putting in a conventional furnace as it will sell better that way than with a wood burning outdoor furnace. Or be easier to rent if I go that route. Although I am still interested in checking out wind power.....Next year for that.
So I am going to go up and get feed and see if I can get the feeders filled and fill the waterers. Got to go by and feed the horse. Deb went back to the northern Va area where she works, but may be back wed.
Then maybe I am going to try to get all the stuff in the cabinets that is here in the kitchen and the bathroom. I did get the flex-tape down in the tub after scrubbing it out pretty good the other day. Found 3 small cracks. Not going to try to remove the black epoxy stuff they had put in the tub previously. Need to get a shower curtain rod up.
Talked to my father yesterday in NH. Not a very good discussion. My mom has stopped talking all together, and he said she basically just sits, seldoms acknowledges anyone or anything, not responsive to people talking to her or anything. I don't even know if she can walk at all as she had started to get around a little better for awhile. And he has gotten very unhappy. They won't let him drive....his reaction time is poor. But he also has not and won't make himself do the exercises that they were doing with him in rehab after the horrible stroke. He says he doesn't have time.... but with full time caregivers there, what is so time consuming for him to do????? It is an excuse to not be doing what he needs to do. I am a little sorry for him to not want it enough to do what needs doing. I hate doing some of what the PT guys tell me to do, but I want to be able to do as much as possible. And keep what I have so that when the knees are done I can get more back.
So he was bemoaning his inability to drive, and things are just day to day anymore...... He made the comment that if my mom goes then he has no reason to live. The said thing is she is gone in spirit, her body is still there but "she - the person she was" is gone. It is very sad, and since he cannot control it he is unable to deal with it. I am glad that my brother is the one to take all the grief now because I would have a hard time with the "poor me, my life has gotten so tough, I worked so hard and this is what I have now"......
For me, since I am not welcome there except for visit, it is better that I am here and doing what I can do for myself and offering to help if they want it. I always thought that my mom would someday maybe live with me or my sister if she outlived my father. But her mental deterioration has precluded that she will ever go anywhere else. At least in the scheme of things, she is not going to be like some alzheimers patients......she is unable to get up and walk away from the house, get lost or anything like that. That my father is unwilling to let me come stay there and help and would rather have outside paid help, is just a sign of his needing to be in control and "make the decisions"... It is almost funny that the son he was most at odds with when growing up... is the one he has appointed as his POA and all that.
I will remember the good times since I am not allowed to help through the tougher times.
I am going to a friends' for Thanksgiving. DS is naturally going to the gf family. I was invited but I really don't want to go there. I will go and visit with people that I can talk to and be myself with. Not have to try to find things to say like when we went on the steam train that day.... or the evening I went down for hot dogs and ran out of subjects to try to find to talk about. I am not going to spend the day feeling like the proverbial odd man out. He wants to be in the middle of a family, so god bless him with them. I am tired of it all. Just because she hunts is not much to call common interest. Maybe it is me.... I am just not a big one for all the talk and gossiping.
It was sunny earlier, but it is clouding up. Supposed to get cloudier, then have showers/rain Wed into Thursday morning. Going to be cooler, then really cooling off the end of the month. 40's and 20's.
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