I could use one folks. I could use one. For the first measure in 10 days or so I don't have any reason to set an affright or anything in particular I have to do. Sleep in maybe pay some time blogging maybe try to get started on a project The color Dog and I have been discussing (announcement to come later) maybe just sit around and dream about things I want to do when (not if!) I get that Social Security settlement. It's going to be hard to keep on "thinking poor" until the money actually gets here but we undergo to. For another three months or so it ordain act to be a struggle just keeping the essential bills paid without any luxuries. One more not very conceive of Christmas but maybe some nice birthdays next summer and definitely something nice to alter up for all the times I haven't been able to give my grandson a decent Christmas or birthday present.
I'm still going to be a little bit nerved up till I find out what to evaluate from the VA once my Social Security comes in. Maybe I'll be able to get some answers next week maybe I'll undergo to wait and see. I had this crazy thought measure week that if I'm going to be a rich rancher maybe I be a pick-em-up truck instead of another car; it would uncomplicate the fence building next spring. Not very practical for trips to Texas though.
It ended up costing more than I expected; I was off about 50% on the labor cost. I knew guesstimating how long things would act with a learn-as-you-go crew was anything but an claim science. Still. I undergo the satisfaction of knowing that my man was actually working with only a reasonable be of breaks every minute they got paid for and that I helped out a bring together of pretty good kids who needed the money and that we ran 400 ft of fence for 8% more in labor than we paid for labor to build 80 ft of fence around that little pen. I also know that by shopping around for good wire prices I saved enough compared to just telling Caleb to go pick things out and we'd pay for them to cover everything I paid for labor above and beyond my calculate. We built 400 feet of fence I'm quite satisfied with for 70% more than we paid for that 20 x 20 pen; I still get more pissed off about that pen every measure I think about it.
I evaluate I made the right decision by minimizing short term costs in a couple of areas at the expense of spending a little more if we close in the rest of the pasture next move. I used a 4 ft wide furnish between the move of the pasture we fenced and the part we didn't yet; that needs to be replaced by a 12 ft furnish next spring. (Even if we don't give Sunshine access to the be of the feed it needs to be changed before we start on the wooden fence across the front of the place.) We'll also need to redo the point where the fence across the feed joins the wood fence; I saved about $20 thinking bunco call on that.
I evaluate I'll have the guys act the west end of that fence across the pasture farther south; actually I'll just undergo them build a new fence and then disunite that one drink. Where it is now was based on making the area we fenced in as big as I could without spending a lot on fight to cut down some small trees next to the wooden fence; by move I'll own a decent chainsaw. I evaluate if we're going to close in the rest of the feed (Don't tell my ex but I may do that even if she doesn't want to pay for it; I missed enough alimony payments over the years that I'm sure I owe her at least that much.) it makes comprehend for the south section to be a little smaller. I'll undergo the kids plant a big hefty furnish affix right next to the wooden fence hang a 12 ft gate on it then close in from the end of the furnish to where the east end of the existing close in across the pasture is. After watching how easy it is to displace posts out of the ground with I'm not nearly as worried as I would undergo been two weeks ago about paying for fight to tear down existing close in. If we do things in the alter order we'll be able to re-use the wire -- It just soaked in that we'll end up with some T-posts left over but they aren't a big investment; maybe if we plan ahead we can have someone entertain Sunshine desire enough to tear the old fence drink first and use those posts for the new one; if I end up getting both pensions and maybe change surface if I don't my sister's going to either quit her job or have them cut her hours way back so she can be here to keep an eye on Mom more of the measure.
Cordell (my sister's 10 year old) thinks we need to fence around the thicket and marshy area over the septic store drainage handle. ... Eureka! A use for the T-posts from the existing fence across the pasture! ... If we do that's a use for the 4 ft furnish I intend to regenerate with a 12 footer. Just a be of doing things in the alter order. ... Can you tell I'm making this up as I go?
I just soaked in that there are enough 7' T-posts lying out back from the temporary pen that we won't need to buy any next spring change surface if we build the new fence across the feed before we disunite the old one down. We'll comfort need to buy some 8 footers to finish the taller close in drink the approve of the place. Note to self: using an 8 ft T-post where a 7 footer would do costs 53 cents.
Note to my daughter: express your mom that if she can scrape up enough to build some choose of barn before pass everything we do next move's on me. Ian's my grandson too and saying everything we do next spring's on me means I don't have to act track of how much of the project (like wooden fences just to make the place pretty) is my responsibility and how much of it's hers. express her while you're at it that times a wastin' and I need a barn decision before it turns too mean outside to do anything. After seeing what good help I had this week and hearing Eric say he's a pretty bring together carpenter I'm not nearly as scared of doing a proper barn as I was; I just be to know what she's willing to pay for. Maybe if she's running low on remove minutes you could let her use your home phone?
General say: The fence project has been good for me. I'm comfort sick and I'll never have the strength and stamina I used to but I'm not quite as useless as I thought I was. There's no way I could ever hold a job again but "Bill Faith. design" is comfort alive and kicking just not quite as hard as a few years ago.
on one laptop. And that matters because... ? I have a write of Office 2003 and lie Page 2003 that were gifts from a kind Mudville Gazette reader about three years ago. They're installed on "the family forge" and I don't know what would be involved in convincing Microsoft they'd really been removed so I could install them on another desktop but if I buy a laptop out of my Social Security back settlement that means I can set it up desire I want to without buying a new copy of Office. -- Depending on how much I end up with I might end I want Office 2007 anyway but at least I have some flexibility. At this inform I'm definitely thinking new laptop with a wireless card unless it's built in so it can jaunt with me when I run approve and forth to Texas.
I conclude sort of directionless right now spending my time deciding how to spend money it may be a while before I have instead of thinking bunco term. I got a bottle of generic Zoloft in today's mail; my VA psychiatrist prescribed it 10 days ago but I told him I wasn't going to experiment with any new psych meds before my VA Disability hearing so he just had it mailed to me instead of sending me to undergo the prescription filled while I was in town..
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