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Jan. 26th, 2018 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ranunculusI'm quietly extremely happy.
Today I got the earthquake supplies moved out to the back of the yard. It required getting a "roof" mad" e of an old plank that we found in the "manor" when we first moved in. The plank is a 15" piece of 2x fir with a scrap of 2x filling out the remaining 3" to make a 18" wide bit of lumber. It has been languishing back by the compost heap. One end was quietly rotting away so I cut off about the last 14" of the 8' board. 30 or so bricks made a wonderful foundation for the end that wasn't supported by the compost heap. On the compost end I stabiilzed the wooden end of the compost containers by capping the end posts with an old bit of floorboard. On the other end I screwed a piece of 1x4 to two 2x4 legs. The 1x poked up into a slot formed by some scrap wood that was already attached to the plank. In retrospect I think the "roof" should be wider. Still it was enough to get our three plastic bins of earthquake stuff partially covered. The plastic bins were located under the porch, right next to the extremely sketchy lower unit kitchen addition. I had NO confidence that they would be accessible in an actual earthquake, though being outside was better than being trapped in a collapsed basement.
Upstairs the piles of paper that had accumulated in my office/the livingroom have almost completely disappeared. I spent several hours working on 2017 taxes and putting away bit of paper after bit of paper. Not not only are the taxes looking good, but the house looks better than it has for years.
Today I got the earthquake supplies moved out to the back of the yard. It required getting a "roof" mad" e of an old plank that we found in the "manor" when we first moved in. The plank is a 15" piece of 2x fir with a scrap of 2x filling out the remaining 3" to make a 18" wide bit of lumber. It has been languishing back by the compost heap. One end was quietly rotting away so I cut off about the last 14" of the 8' board. 30 or so bricks made a wonderful foundation for the end that wasn't supported by the compost heap. On the compost end I stabiilzed the wooden end of the compost containers by capping the end posts with an old bit of floorboard. On the other end I screwed a piece of 1x4 to two 2x4 legs. The 1x poked up into a slot formed by some scrap wood that was already attached to the plank. In retrospect I think the "roof" should be wider. Still it was enough to get our three plastic bins of earthquake stuff partially covered. The plastic bins were located under the porch, right next to the extremely sketchy lower unit kitchen addition. I had NO confidence that they would be accessible in an actual earthquake, though being outside was better than being trapped in a collapsed basement.
Upstairs the piles of paper that had accumulated in my office/the livingroom have almost completely disappeared. I spent several hours working on 2017 taxes and putting away bit of paper after bit of paper. Not not only are the taxes looking good, but the house looks better than it has for years.
