Sun Dried Clothing

So today I had to work. Im not sure if anyone reading this blog knows that I work outside the home. I am a massage therapist. I got into massage therapy as a way to help others seek other options in thier healing process. Whether healing from physical pain or something on a deeper level, massage therapy has always been beneficial.

So today I went to the Spa to work. I worked with a few different people with different issues. The biggest thing I get from giving a massage is knowing that for that hour, I helped them forget pain or forget worries, to just rest.


My DH was so wonderful today. He is working with the kids and trying to find the right structure for them. The big issue is that right now we are in a state of transition so they are testing boundaries. Even in the testing, I am hoping that they are learning something and also that dad will have patiences to deal with the test that they are throwing his way. Tommorrow we will be having a sit down with the kids to discuss the boundaries of the new farm and what is expected of them.

DH brought the washer in today and hooked it up. So I plan to sun dry my clothes on the line tomorrow morning. I don't think I have done that since the we lived on the ranch in 2006. The kids may or may not remember that, but I love fresh washed linens dried on the line. I hear that there will be a nice breeze tomorrow.

I hope to post pictures tomorrow as while we unpacked some today, I was able to find the camera. We have cleaned up the yard, will be burning off the pile of stuff that the previous tenants graciously left us, and hopefully getting the chicken coop ready for chicks around the first of September.

Progress at a standstill

So we have moved into part of the house, the back part to be exact. Although the kitchen is in working order and I am blesse with a stove, fridge and even a dishwasher. Under the kitchen sick has old water damage that no one took the time to fix when they replaced the plumbing. The plus side of that is I know the plumbing is not bad. I tested it, I promise. But I also teste the floor where the old water damage was, yep its bad.

But back to where we are in the house. We are staying in a room of about 150 square foot, maybe 175. We have set up two queen size beds and a bunk bed. There is still room to walk in there barely and we are house ALL our clothing in a walk in closet in a very unorganized manner. I am going to work on organizing that on Sunday afternoon. I saw a post on another blog about a family closet and hope that I can come up with that same concept before school starts...because the clothes will have to stay back there even if we get a couple more bedrooms going, due to the dust.

So that is where we sleep. Then you step out of that room and there about a 50 sq ft room that houses our dining room table. We also have a 15 sq ft space that is storing everything else. My husband has also taken over a 100 sq foot space that houses his desk and tools. Ryan doesn't sleep much so he has to have access to his computer. Its his one vice playing games while everyone is sleeping. Otherwise he would wake everyone up because he would want to work on the house.

Finally we have an operational toilet and shower...in seperate gutted bathrooms. Oh and sink also in the bath with the shower. It makes for interesting mornings getting ready for work.

This week Ryan killed a timber rattler in the yard. My youngest impelled his foot with an iron rake. We have moved into the house, cleaned, primed, layed flooring, and knocked down the chest high grass. What we have not done yet, made chicken coop, fenced in the pasture, layed more flooring, and finished painting.

New flooring, injuries, and hard work

Sleep has not been something I have been enjoying latelly. We packed up everything at the rental and have been trying to get someone to move the storage trailor over to the house. So I have been sleeping on a feather bed on the floor for the past three nights and my back is not happy.
So today we are taking a day off from the house. Its rainy and I needed to go into work. So I am at work.

Yesterday we put flooring down in Alexis' room. We plan to put a bit down this next weekend too. But it will all depend on what is going on with family and work. If not then we will take a weekend off the house and go to the lake with relatives. My grandpa says he will be there sunday.

Progress

Okay, so I hadn't posted since the first. We had to wait for the current "tenant" to move out of dads house. They finally left on the 7th. We went to check the house out on the 8th. It was in sorry condition, trash left, nothing cleaned, holes in doors, urine smell in carpets, it was just plain gross.
So on the 9th we dug our heals in and began demo. First thing we did was pull all the carpets out. This would have been fine but there was also a heat wave going on and the ac in the house is broken. So we were at the house by 0530 working til we could no longer take the heat. Then I would come home shower and nap, then head to work til 1900. It has been a rough week or so, but we have accomplished so much. All the trash is out of the house, the kitchen has been bleached and scrubbed. All the carpets are removed, floors swept and then vacummed. We also had to bug bomb the house 3 times cause of bug infestation. The best part of the whole week was laying the laminate wood flooring in the living room, that is what gives us hope and lets us know the potential of the house. I lived there before, so I know how it can look and did look. I am just saddened that someone would leave it such a mess. The other thing that scares me is that there was lots of dirt and cobwebs...don't people clean. Yuck. We also sealed all the subfloors so the pet odors do not come out once we put the flooring in.

I will post some pictures in my next update.