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Diary #379

Posted in Diary, tagged , , , , on October 3, 2017| 6 Comments »

Early this morning, Chekhov left (or will leave, if you’re reading this within four hours of posting) on a plane for Dallas, where he’ll pick up a rental truck, drive up to Oklahoma, pick up the last few things and close the storage unit, then drive back to Sunset…all on his own dime, which I think is pretty damned wonderful of him.  When he arrives home (probably Friday evening), the move will be complete at last and I can start putting my money into fixing the existing house and building an addition that I feel is necessary for comfortable living.  And just in time; as I wrote last week, this has cost me a great deal more than expected, and it’ll be good to shift to expenses that aren’t on such a tight deadline as a move is.  We’ve already started on those; last week, Grace gave the plumbing a much-needed overhaul and she and Chekhov built a fence to keep the llamas in the barnyard until the whole area can be fenced later (here you see them awaiting release, with Lassen at his post).  The next project after the fence is a major repair on some damaged floor joists (related, as the handy among you may have suspected, to the damaged plumbing), and then we’ll start on the addition (which will be framed in steel and will contain an all-new bathroom, laundry room, hot tub, and fireplace).  I’m going to be working as much as possible over the next year to achieve all that; at this time last year I hadn’t even decided to move yet, so I figure if I can accomplish all this in a year, getting it to the state I want should be achievable in a similar time period.  But that means money, so to kick it off I’m running a very generous special all this month; it’s open to both local clients and those I need to travel to reach, with different terms.  If you’re interested please email me, but please only if you’re serious!

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