Comments | tashabear: downhill stretch

tashabear

downhill stretch

Sep 20, 2006 02:58

I'm almost three-quarters of the way done with Operation Fix Wolfie's Cloak. Well, the embroidery, at any rate, and that's the important bit. Stitching the strip to the cloak will take a little time, but nothing to how long the embroidery has taken ( Read more... )

garb, cloak project

Comments 8

starseeker1221 September 20 2006, 13:09:48 UTC

Is there a way to make the basement less dark/scary? If you started by focusing on that (even just getting a few really good lights or something), it would help for your cleaning and make it easier to go down there for the new washing machine later. (cause even if it was far less practical, I think I'd choose the laudromat over a dark/scary basement :-)

tashabear September 20 2006, 19:09:23 UTC

Yeah... cleaning it. My life is one big circular argument. :-D

starseeker1221 September 20 2006, 19:36:39 UTC

LoL, I tried! :-) Good luck with that! (and with everything else you're tackling right now! :-)

soteltie September 20 2006, 13:59:40 UTC

Hi neighbor! I'm fine with basements, as long as it (and the building itself) doesn't contain snakes of any kind. I can deal with just about anything else.

I'd be happy to join you for a couple of hours of basement de-junking, if you'd be willing to help me shave a yak or two over at my place sometime :-) (How do you feel about stripping wallpaper or wallpapering?)

soteltie September 20 2006, 19:54:43 UTC

You don't have to clean the entire basement all at once. You just need room enough to hook up the new washer safely, and a place to put your detergent and dryer sheets, plus a path to get to it ( ... )

tashabear September 20 2006, 19:59:23 UTC

If it was boxes, I'd just move them. It's piles of stuff, mostly clothes, that got taken down there to be washed and never seen again. I just need to go through them, determine what's salvageable and what's not, get rid of the "not" stuff, and organize the "salvageable" stuff. Then if we get the new washer from a store, they can take the old one, or if I get one from Craigslist, I'll call the city and see what they want me to do.

Really, it's just a question of going down there and DOING it, instead of sitting here and whining about it.

soteltie September 20 2006, 20:14:38 UTC

Can you just take an armload from the pile from the basement to outdoors? It is soo nice out. One bag for trash, one bag for keep, no yaks allowed. Good luck!

cymrullewes September 21 2006, 11:57:50 UTC

I'm willing to help you clean the basement if you are willing to loan me knitting books. :-)

Right now my yak shaving is all about getting our household stabilized in its new digs. So we need to buy oak 1x8s and get them dadoed so we can put in the shelf rails so we can put together the bookcases so we can unpack the book boxes in the living room. I can't do the woodwork so I'm waiting on it and unixronin won't do it because he's got other things priotized over it. What I really need to do but can't with his parents visiting is to put away all of the clothes that aren't being worn.... hrm. We have this extra dresser now... can put the too small for oldest but too large for the middle in to that... sorry. I'll noodle off in my own journal.