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I was out this morning, so... but couldn't do much about it until after some sleep. They were watered. I won't bother feeding them tonight, they just don't eat after dark. But, tomorrow, they will be well fed. Though, really, in the winter, they don't eat much. What I had been feeding them in the summer, a day, they don't go through in a week. Oh, I keep the feeders up. They just... don't eat much. New food, though, too. That may be part of it?
I called, tonight, about potential employment... for someone else. Not sure if they will be interested, but it would help to have regular help, for a while. Even three hours a day, or the equivalent spread through the week... or two or three days of six to eight hours a day. First to get the place sorted, then to do some of the upgrades and fixing, cleaning, updating of things. Plus, sometimes, someone to tell ME what to do. Or teach me, and let me get to it. I'm... willing to put some of my fat butt on the line.
As long as the money savings would be worth it. I won't touch heavier electrical, or some plumbing. But I can scrub, or pain, or even test and run wiring for a simple 120v line. There are things I could do, if I may have to be taught some things. I can learn, I can do. And, if it saves money, and improves the house, you bet. Sometimes paying someone to teach, show, then tell... is far more advantageous, in every way, than just paying to have it done.
Yea. This will never be a new house. Then again, I... wouldn't want a new house. I want a place that is, was, and hopefully will be... for generations to come. Clearing, cleaning, repairing, upgrading, planting. I have heard how much the cost would be, for the higher amount. And, yes, it would be tighter. But... it would be every upgrade and repair, needed and wanted, plus some for help on the things I would be doing "myself". I just need to get the place in shape for a more solid estimate of value. Ugh.
Terrifying. Sure thinking about it. It is a decent house. Big enough for a three to five child family, really. With a history, and to my eyes rather pretty. Looks like a tiny thing, on the outside, but swallows you up when you enter. Or... much more... than one could imagine. Rooms, nooks, closets, sneaky ways here, or there. Artifacts of old life, and new. Yea. She is worth keeping, and keeping up, and living in.
Anyway... rabbit food, and thoughts. Just to have the place cleared and cleaned, would be super. To have it updated, repaired, and ready for another twenty to forty years would be even better. I might even try to save enough, so that when the living room is cleared, I could get a big lazy-boy type thing for me. Maybe two? No, just one. And either keep the leather love chair, or get a better one. If a newer one would have to wait. Later.
"Then again, I... wouldn't want a new house. I want a place that is, was, and hopefully will be... for generations to come."
ReplyDeleteI always feel blue whenever I pass or go through a new "housing development" or "neighborhood". New homes today are soulless disposable cutouts. Compare to the neighborhood I grew up in, where houses were all unique and built to last. They possessed character and attracted families. Today's structures attract consumers.
Well, ghettos... skyscrapers for the poor, mobile homes, and track (trek?, else?) housing is worse. Thankfully, for whatever reason, mobile homes are nearly a dead program. Even ghettos are going away, slowly. Still have slumlords, but... that isn't always or necessarily an owner only problem. Nasty people live nasty ways, and can't have good things.
ReplyDeleteIf you want family house, you have to fight for the family. It would take eliminating matrimony, the woman getting the children and anything but a minor, temporary, stipend or less if it's her choice without absolute good cause, and even sometimes then... nothing, if it would impinge on the rest and whole of the family. The family, good, bad, and ugly, or you get what we have today.
Choices. If you want family housing, you have to have families, and they have to believe they will remain as a family unit, so spend the money to make that more comfortable. Choices. I'd love to see a return of the family house, and family, not sure that will happen until there is a major fall of this government. As long as it doesn't become a world government as replacement.