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The end is in sight

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Down to the floor and frame. Just have to finish demolishing the floor, find someone to haul off the frame and finish cleaning up. Need to dig up the bulbs and assorted plants I am bringing home. Once the trailer is completely down I can then bring the cinder blocks from underneath to make a raised flower bed out front. Possibly a raised bed for vegetables further back in the yard if there are enough. I've still some paint in the old shed so will paint the cinder blocks with it. The same brick color the old trailer was painted with, we still have 5 gallons of that. Will be painting my tire planters the same color. Made a dump run, both debris and household hazardous waste. Took all the e-waste into the recycle center, so that is finally gone. The new place is slowly coming together. Made some progress in organizing the kitchen. Can finally get to some of my cabinets. Still quite a bit of unpacking to finish. Need a couple more shelves up in the kitchen for assorted small appl

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So I have screwed up the layout big time

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Oh well, will poke at it until I get things right and the way I want them to look. In the meantime I am back (again), I hope. The events of the last few months are finally winding down. Settling into the new house nicely. Would go faster but having to spend most weekends demolishing the old place doesn't leave a lot of time to unpack and such. That has to get done when I have time and energy. The roof on the old place is dropped and in fact has been hauled off to the landfill as of last weekend. Here is what the place looked like after the drop: We are now down to the floor and frame to demo. Then it is clean up and soon we will be done. Needless to say, that will be a relief. I now have curtains in the new bedroom: So at least some parts of my new home are looking better. Just need to finish unpacking a lot more boxes and finding places to put everything. Life is slowing getting back to normal. I so can't wait to get there. I am too old for all this stuff. I wan