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• Nov. 13, 2009 - Friday - Compost Bin Progress!!!
I am so *d*o*n*e* building stuff this year. Except that I'm not actually done building the manure composting bin. It's almost done though. 16'W x 8'L x 5'H. The three youngest children have helped me with it from start to finish and we've done it completely by ourselves. It didn't take a lick of help from the grumpy big guys. It has only two 8x8 compartments. I'll probably build another 8x8 on the end of the run in the spring.
But that's *it*. I want to be done and just enjoy the day-to-day. We'll probably dig in and get school run over and out of the way. Six-day school weeks from deep-freeze to thaw, then I'll be home free to do my warm weather stuff when it returns.
I have not cared for my new "plan" about taking one week off a month. Yuck. It doesn't work. It's too pre-meditated. I'd rather just keep a tally of weeks we get off and just take them whenever the patootie we need one, and mark it off as we take it. But I have little interest in taking a week off at Thanksgiving or at Christmas just because we're having company or going somewhere. Seems like a waste of a free week. A *good* week off, in my book, is one where we can enjoy accomplishing something - particularly something outside - or where we're on a family vacation.
On another construction note, I'll be glad when C is done with our building stuff and *gone*. I've had enough! I don't care to have service people here all the time, excepting JT. He seemed like family and it was no sacrifice to have him around the place.
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• Nov. 13, 2009 - Untitled Comment
(too bad I'm too lazy to build one.)
Hope you enjoy it very mulch. he he he