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[Devonviolet]

@Devonviolet your place is looking so good!!! Your lawn tractor is a blessing!

Thanks, Bay! We are so happy that we are able to stay on top of the mowing with our new riding mower. Having a 54" mower deck sure helps!

BTW, love your new avatar! Thats an awesome shot!

 

[Baymule]

BTW, love your new avatar! Thats an awesome shot!

I know you know whose eye that is too!

 

[Mike CHS]

It is nice to just sit back and think how all that hard work has paid off.

 

[Baymule]

It is nice to just sit back and think how all that hard work has paid off.

Thank you Mike. LOL not a lot of sitting back around here though. We left today so we wouldn't go outside and work ourselves to death. I am looking forward to having all the fence built, all the animal shelters built, all the infrastructure built and in place, so I can heave a sigh of relief and go into maintenance mode.

 

[Mike CHS]

That sitting back comment was made very much tongue and cheek since I have a fair idea of what you guys have going on. You guys have been in hyper mode compared to us but you are getting it done.

 

[Baymule]

We signed papers on this place September 2014. We had to get the electrical fixed as vandals had but all the copper wiring out from under the house. During the financing process, vandals came back, stole the furnace, AC unit and tore out the breaker box, to the tune of $10,000. I hit the ground running. Then had to get flooring inside the front door pulled up and new plywood put down because it was water damaged. Then the inspector had to come back and look it over again. I ripped up flooring, kilzed the walls and ceilings, painted, put down unfinished tongue and groove knotty pine, sanded it, white washed it and put down 4 coats of poly urethane. We moved on February 14, 2015, our 19th anniversary.

With all the building, fencing, clean up and everything else we have done, my Mom died last year on Fathers Day, DH had a triple bypass in August 2015, and knee replacement in March 2016. He still needs a shoulder replacement. I call him a classic car that needs parts replaced. I know we will never be "finished" but I sure would like to wake up knowing that I didn't have fence to build or a building project to get cranked up on. I am looking for that day I can move into maintenance mode.

 

[Devonviolet]

I know we will never be "finished" but I sure would like to wake up knowing that I didn't have fence to build or a building project to get cranked up on. I am looking for that day I can move into maintenance mode.

I'mright there with you, my dear friend! We found our 5 acres in October of 2014 & moved the first week of January 2015.

We havent had some of the dramatic issues, that you have had. But, are also trying to get fence & infrastructure built.

Maintence mode would be a welcome respite from the work load.

I do agree with Mike, though . . . it is nice to take a break to sit & enjoy where we have come so far.

Sometimes DH gets overwhelmed. He then works to the point of exhaustion. I have to remind him of all that we have accomplished. He seems to do better, at coping with it all, if we do it in bite sized pieces. . . . "Today we mow or weed whip until one tank of gas runs out - then we HAVE to stop!" Tomorrow is another day.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sometimes DH gets overwhelmed. He then works to the point of exhaustion. I have to remind him of all that we have accomplished. He seems to do better, at coping with it all, if we do it in bite sized pieces. . . . "Today we mow or weed whip until one tank of gas runs out - then we HAVE to stop!" Tomorrow is another day.

That's a good philosophy! With the heat onset I've gone back into my summer self-preservation mode. I can work hard outside for about an hour and then I come in to hydrate. Sometimes it takes another hour for me to drink a big tall glass of water, lol.

 

[Baymule]

An early start, work until about 11:00, then I'm wiped out.

 

[Baymule]

@Devonviolet and her husband came by to visit with us yesterday! I baked a blueberry cobbler and we had that and tall glasses of cold iced sweet tea. We got to visit and had a great time with them. They both admired our clearing efforts, nothing makes us feel good like praise from someone that saw the "before" and "during"! Can't wait to be able to show them the "after"! Today it is drizzly rain, followed by showers, followed by more drizzle. Phooey. I wanna go build a burn pile!