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theladysnarkydame In a flurry of "get small projects done" energy yesterday and today, we've:
finished touching up the paint jobs in the bedroom and the bathroom,
recaulked the bathtub,
put a screen door on my craftroom exit so I can get some breeze in there (and it's fantastic, I can hear so many birds - and that Douglas Squirrel, let's call it Doogie, is loud as fuck in a cute, chirpy kind of way),
repotted some houseplants,
raked up a ton of old dead blackberry vines (exposing a lot of new blackberry vines beneath them which will need to get dealt with),
pulled up a bunch of decorative stones from a defunct fire pit in the front yard and used them to line the circumference of the bird feeding area (holy hell there are so many little birds here),
and raked all the old leaves out of the penned in area that will eventually become our chicken run (we think maybe the people who owned this place before us had goats there? there's a plywood lean-to and a set of tree stumps that look like something a goat would climb on).
Possibly tomorrow we'll put together a window screen for the bedroom window and finish raking up all the old vines I piled up today. They need to be wheeled back to the current fire pit and set on fire. Whee! I'd do it today but I am instead going to play some Animal Crossing and have a snack.
There's no hurry. It's not supposed to rain all week, and it's not like I have to go to work or anything. :P
finished touching up the paint jobs in the bedroom and the bathroom,
recaulked the bathtub,
put a screen door on my craftroom exit so I can get some breeze in there (and it's fantastic, I can hear so many birds - and that Douglas Squirrel, let's call it Doogie, is loud as fuck in a cute, chirpy kind of way),
repotted some houseplants,
raked up a ton of old dead blackberry vines (exposing a lot of new blackberry vines beneath them which will need to get dealt with),
pulled up a bunch of decorative stones from a defunct fire pit in the front yard and used them to line the circumference of the bird feeding area (holy hell there are so many little birds here),
and raked all the old leaves out of the penned in area that will eventually become our chicken run (we think maybe the people who owned this place before us had goats there? there's a plywood lean-to and a set of tree stumps that look like something a goat would climb on).
Possibly tomorrow we'll put together a window screen for the bedroom window and finish raking up all the old vines I piled up today. They need to be wheeled back to the current fire pit and set on fire. Whee! I'd do it today but I am instead going to play some Animal Crossing and have a snack.
There's no hurry. It's not supposed to rain all week, and it's not like I have to go to work or anything. :P
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Date: 2020-04-11 07:56 pm (UTC)Most of the acre yard is covered in thorny old blackberries, which will take some hefty work to clear out, but there's space towards the house which is penned in and clear - possibly for those theoretical goats. I'd love goats, myself, but they're probably a few years down the line - first, chickens! We're going to build a coop and get the run set up properly this summer, and have the place ready for baby chicks this fall. It's very exciting! (one of the ladies I work with has had chickens for years, and has offered to be my chicken guru, so I have lots of advice to stand by).
Perhaps once the chickens have settled in, and we've cleared some more space in the thicket, I'll put in a pond and get a few ducks, too!
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Date: 2020-04-09 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-11 07:57 pm (UTC)My work had me on my feet all the time, so if I don't keep myself busy I start getting antsy. Luckily the to-do list is long!