Status: Packed for a trip to Florida today.
Narrative: We had our morning coffee until 8AM when the house turned off the TV as it will for the duration of our trip. We spent the next two hours packing and cleaning up for the trip. We got on the road at a reasonable 10AM and made good time. We sent D a message informing him of our expected arrival time. D on his own, got off 2 hours early at 4PM and called me from the gate while we were eating dinner. I offered a compromise of letting him get dinner while I drove to Aunties house for the keys. We all ended up at the house around 6PM, dusk. M stayed in the truck as instructed while D and I walked the buildings and worked up a plan for tomorrow. Their Cousins arrived sometime later and spent a good amount of time on the farm D and M. Auntie did a bang up job cleaning the kitchen and left maybe 10 garbage bags in the living room floor. I couldn’t tell from the contents whether they were going to the dump or to Grandpa’s. The night was falling apart with everyone and the baby so I decided to call it a night. D was quite willing to work, I was just done for the day and the were too many distractions. Everyone went their separate ways and we are at the hotel unwinding and getting some badly needed rest.
Tomorrow: Clean up the inside of the buildings and take trash to the recycling center.
Project: We are planning on hitting the ground early tomorrow as best we can and bag the house trash until the recycling center opens. Then we’ll start hauling trash pickup load by pickup load. (They only take bagged trash so the furniture will take another path.) The metal should have a separate recycling bin, we should be good with all the wire cages in the bumpkin. I will ask them if the bundled bags are paper and can be recycled without being bagged.
We still have a significant amount of stuff that is more than a pickup truck full going to grandpa’s, Baseline land fill and the recycling center. We’re planning clearing a room, cleaning it without taking more than an hour and moving on to the next room. My best guess is that we’ll be 80% on the house by noon except for the porch and the office. If R is helping us we might be done with the office a little after lunch. Hopefully the shop-VAC in the shed works good enough to use on the office closet. (Feces and dust)
I plan on emptying the box trailer before D gets off work. When D gets there we’ll load all that’s headed for the baseline land fill into the box trailer. (Probably furniture only.) The second option is to drop it all off onto grandpa’s burn pile, it would be quicker and get the stuff off the farm by tomorrow night. Not sure we want to drive the box trailer at night, but we might get it to Grandpa’s in one load.
Hopefully this comes together by early morning, if it does we might be done tomorrow.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
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