We’ve been packing and sorting like a couple of dervishes … deconstructed our tin shed, in an afternoon! … the one it took us an entire bloody summer to build. There were extenuating circumstances, but still.
Going – In spite of being in total darkness and under a layer of industrial rubber, the bamboo, still managed to get this far – my kinda bamboo!
Going-er – The amount of spider’s nests we had to clean off the walls, even this early in the season, was … well, quite terrifying really
Gone – As though it was never there, except for the disgruntled spiders and flat bamboo stems, of course
Nuts and bolts – I think we even managed to find all the ones we dropped on the gravel as we worked
We’ve reduced our kitchen possessions to only the things that will go in the RV with us, rather than our usual abundant pots-n-pans-n-dishes-n-spoons, etc. It’s a learning curve.
All the packing debris on the floors was getting a little ridiculous so I, in a fit of insanity, vacuumed it all up.
Then, because we had two consecutive days without rain, and the front lawn … segue – Mrs Widds and I have come to an agreement. Wherever we end up, there will be no lawn. Patches and paths of grass or some other soft-to-the-toes herb will be welcome, but lawns, and their idle, yet labour-intensive, ways, will be banished from the Queendom! … un-segue-ing … needed to be cut before it grew beyond the capabilities of our trusty little lawnmower, that started right up with nary a cough or splutter after it’s long season stored away with spiders and stray tendrils of bamboo for company.
Yesterday was, in fact, a maintenance day, and necessary because we still have to live here for another twenty-something days.
Today however … today, saw me tucked up in bed with numerous hot water bottles strewn about my person, moaning and groaning with some sort of tummy upset. Tucked up in bed that is, in-between bouts of sitting on the toilet, moaning and groaning just as loudly.
Two consecutive days, equally hard, for very different reasons.
I’m now going back to bed to moan and groan some more, and will spring forth renewed on the morrow. The packing of boxes and sorting of treasures, wait for no woman or an upset tummy.
Widdershins Worlds 
How exciting! Sounds like you’ll be embarking on an amazing adventure!
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I’m surrounded by the complete chaos of packing right now … I’m sure I’ll look back on this part fondly … when in a month or two, or three, or … 😀
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You didn’t let one of them spideys have a nibble, did you?
Doing that job got me a red-back bite on the neck with similar symptoms, plus a lot of pain in the head, neck and back.
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Damn! You’re lucky it wasn’t worse, Cage. Did you see a doctor or anything? Redbacks are no joke. 😦
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No doc, but it was a male, so not as lethal as a female. It hurt like hell, but the red and swelling was less than a 20c piece. I iced it constantly, and it was fine after a couple of days.
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Um…how on earth can you tell gender on a spider?????? I can’t even work out gender on birds. 😦
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Female spiders are larger in abdomen; males are much smaller, and often the stripe is paler, or even white.
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-sigh- I’d be too busy running away to notice anything that subtle. 😦
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To sex a chook as a chick: male chicks have feathers with a pointed tip, females have a rounded tip. Of course, they have to have real feathers, so not day-olds.
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Your knowledge of sexing spiders and chooks is truly impressive! 🙂
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Can’t tell the difference with snake sexing, though I can tell at a glance if they’re likely to be venomous. If they’re venomous, the head is more pointed [not talking fangs, just the shape of the bitey part] and the non-venomous are more likely to be squared-off.
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Dear god…seriously? Bear with me while I pick my jaw off the floor. So, does the pointy vs round only work for young chicks? Oh…never mind. Just realised, roosters crow. 😦
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LMAO. Yes, young, as in a few weeks old, before the wattles grow and indicate the noisy ones. Not the wing feathers – too delicate to play with them; on the neck.
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Aaaah. Gotcha. I’ve never been that close to a chick/chicken but I’ll keep that in mind in case I ever do. 🙂
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No … I grew up in Australia, spider avoidance was second nature. 😀
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Your tummy problems could be a virus, as there has been a lot of it going around over here, Widds… I have to ask, are you taking the shed with you?
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Also the light fittings, the roof tiles, and the mains plumbing pipework as far back as the roadway. Grass ought to be rolled up and taken away on the past day of the tenancy.
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Removing pipes seems very extreme!
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I’m all better today, albeit a bit wobbly on my pins. 🙂 … it’s going into storage. I can just see us lugging it around the countryside, setting it up and taking it down again every time we set up camp for a couple of days. 🙂
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I did wonder…
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We never realise quite what (or how much) we’ve got until we try to move it (and/or get rid of it). Mighty work indeed. You’ll have muscles like Ms Charlene Atlas by the tume you’ve finished. Won’t be able to do anything with them of course, since you’ll be too knackered, but you’ll have them nonetheless. 🙂
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Amen. When we took down the home of 37 years I homeschooled in, well, there was a lot of stuff.
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Sold my parents’ house to another junkhound who saw it all as “treasure” – result!
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That’s marvelous – things may get used.
We got a warm feeling every time one of our helpers managed to place something with someone who looked forward to using it. We had a lot of homeschool supplies and equipment that other homeschoolers and teachers could use. And furniture went to those being helped to set up apartments…
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My muscles will have muscles! 😀
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Good grief. The very thought of all that would put me off going anywhere
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Sometimes the only thing that keeps us going is the thought that we’re actually taking very little with us on the road. 🙂
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Sounds like you are in for a great few months ahead.
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Yep, 😀 … it’s just this one that’s a bugger. 😀
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I am sending good thoughts through the ether, I hope you catch them.
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Caught! … they did good. 🙂
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A mammoth enterprise, Widders, but bravo, you and the Mrs. New path and prospects firming up. Just need to be rid of pesky bug. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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All better today, but still a bit wobbly on my pins 🙂 … taking it easy and taking lots of breaks. 🙂
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Gut assaults tend to knock the stuffing out of one, don’t they. Lots of breaks sounds spot on.
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Bits and pieces just seem to sneak in when you’re not looking until, suddenly, there’s a house full of stuff. Commiserations on both the maintenance, packing and the tummy problems. 😦
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Especially when your long-term plan is to use all those bits and pieces, and then some. 😀 … maintenance and packing and tummy are all better today. 🙂
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Glad to hear it. Let’s hope the last couple of days are the only hiccups in your adventure. -hugs-
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I hope you are feeling better!
I am excitedly watching your upcoming adventure as me and The Man will be embarking on a new adventure of our own. Change seems to be in the air.
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I feel for you. Last week I was groaning and moaning from overdoing it. Good work with taking down the shed! I’m very impressed that bamboo grows well with snow and cold. I ought to look it up. I’ve always thought it was a tropical or subtropical plant. May make sense why the bamboo in our yard hasn’t grown much in 5 years.
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I guess it depends on the species. 😀
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I hope you’re feeling better now. What a project. This makes me never want to move!
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All better now! 😀 … makes us want to never, NEVER, do this again too!!! 😀
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I can imagine!
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