OT Moving to the farm

[Slinky]

Hey, Yawn, ya can't ride an ear!!! Just like you can't ride color. I'm like you I like the various buckskins too. My daughter likes the bays.

[YawnGirl]

Hey, Yawn, ya can't ride an ear!!! Just like you can't ride color. I'm like you I like the various buckskins too. My daughter likes the bays.

Girl, I'm from Kentucky. See below...



That's right, NO SHOES!!

[Slinky]

Yeah, well, I'm from Michigan and as a kid you couldn't keep shoes on me either. Now that I'm an old fart I still don't wear shoes except when necessary but I tend to keep socks on my feet since my feet are almost always cold. And I have a granddaughter we can't keep shoes on. NOT very smart to be barefoot around horses but .... we can't convince her of that any more than they could convince me when I was a kid! She lost a job caring for two horses 'cause she kept getting caught w/no shoes on working around them. Did I mention she is quite the free-spirit??

[Pugsy]

Slinky,
Just as well your daughter wouldn't look at the grulla mare. I had emailed the owner and she has decided not to sell the mare. She needs to pull the ad but hasn't.

I am just about settled in at the farm. Still lots of boxes to unpack but all the necessities are in place and I have no idea where to put the other crap. I am back over at my mom's for a few days. I am tackling a remodel of her bathroom. Taking out the tub and installing just a shower. New tile everywhere and such. Lot of work to do. I have a friend helping me.
Guess I had better get started. Today is demolition day. I am good at tearing stuff up.

[Slinky]

*sigh* Well, I guess we should look at the bright side. Maybe next year we'll have the room ready for a 4th horse and this gal may change her mind and be willing to sell.

Ooooh! Sounds like fun tearing up a bathroom!!!!

Of course, the putting it back together .... glad you have some help! The putting back together is never near as much fun. But then the satisfaction when it IS all back together and looks so good makes the putting it back together worthwhile.

[robertmarilyn]

We are moving to a little farm house out in the country on 26 acres. I will be able to have my horses with me now instead of a 2 hour drive to see them. Lots of work has been done this past week. I painted the whole inside of the house including ceilings. Now we get to move in this weekend. It will be a while before I will have internet service unless I come over and visit my Mom.

Oh Pugsy, I am so happy for you. I have always gotten to have my horses on acreage at our home and I wouldn't change it for anything. When we first moved to the isolated place we live now, we didn't have internet or phone service for several months but it was worth the wait. Have fun with your horses (by the way, on a later page I saw a picture of a 'gorilla' horse)
mar

[Pugsy]

Progress report.
Finally have Dish TV at the farm. That was done yesterday. Some of the junk left by white trashy people got hauled off yesterday when the little man that came by my mom's house was driving by and saw the steel (yes, steel) bathtub sitting in the front yard and wanted to know if he could have it. I said by all means take it. He wanted to know if I knew of anyone else that had old metal that needed to be hauled off. Yep, the farm had old washer, dryer, stove and hot water heater left by others. So he went out to the farm and got a truck load of metal and will be coming back for more. Hoorah..

The bathroom remodel is of course taking longer than anticipated. The steel tub was a real PITA to get out. So I had 2 days for demolition instead of one. Then we found that the SOB's that built the house had put in the wrong sized drain pipes from washing machine that flowed into bathtub drain area pipe. Likely this was the cause of the gurgling when washer drained and the sometimes backup slightly into the tub. They also had not used a proper P trap. We couldn't get to all the washing machine drain pipes to redo those so we opted to try moving things slightly that we could get to and using proper P trap a little farther away hoping that will reduce or eliminate that annoyance.

It has been brutally cold here. Went to hook up to outside faucet yesterday (finally got above freezing temps) and that pipe busted and I had a shower coming out the light fixture in the basement bedroom and a waterfall down the wall.......So I spent a few hours vacuuming water out of the carpet.... My poor mother requested valium.... She is so stressed. Course house is a mess, dust everywhere.. Plumber came and had to cut small hole in the ceiling to get to offending faucet spigot.. Unable to repair because proper item was not available at local building materials store at 7:30PM but they did get it capped so we at least have water in the house. I had to carry water from neighbor's house 2 doors down for the wet saw to cut tiles. I am too old for this crap.

So we will finish the tile today. Taking 2 days longer than we planned because of the unforeseen setbacks. My mother is frantic because it is costing about $500 more than she had thought. She still keeps forgetting that even at that cost we are $300 under the cost of what the ReBath people wanted to just install cheap fiberglass walls for a shower and I am tiling all the walls besides the shower. It would have been $1500 just to tile those walls outside the shower... Geez, so it still is saving money and looking 1000% better than plain beige fiberglass like shower.

She hasn't seen the damage to the ceiling in the bathroom from the busted pipe. It is cosmetic. We can patch the hole and I will repaint the ceiling. But she sure has her panties all in a wad. Bemoaning the fact that her homeowners deductible is so high...... I just told her we won't even bother with the insurance.

Let's hope today goes smoothly and we can finish. I will grout later after everything sets up good and my back has a chance to heal. It is a beautiful shower and is coming together nicely now. Will move toilet today and get the tiles up on those walls. Let's hope we don't break the damn thing....

We have taken a bathroom with tub only and created a huge walk in shower and removed all the puke green 35 year old tile.

Okay, I have vented enough. Thanks for listening. I needed to whine.

[kteague]

Thanks for listening. I needed to whine.

All I'd be able to do is moan! Quite ambitious for you to take on this task on the tail end of a move, but I'm sure the end result will be gratifying.

I had to carry water from neighbor's house 2 doors down for the wet saw to cut tiles.

HGTV should give you your own show!

I am too old for this crap.

Apparently not! But you remind of my friend who at age 93 complained of not being able to get her yard work done because she had to rest so much in between tasks. I was feeling bad for her till she said she had to rest after digging up some bushes in her side yard, after replanting them in the front yard, after weeding her garden, after mowing the front yard, after pruning some... . I had to rest just listening to her. Now I think I'll go back to sleep after reading of your endeavors! You are amazing!