it's been a week since last entry.
So, not a lot to report, and few pics.
Over the weekend, Tracey took me up to Davis early Sat morn, we stopped by Kidwell's over in Thomas, picked up a 27' u-haul, went to H&H hardware, Met with Matt Sherald of Pimby Energy LLC, who ferried a bunch of my PV solar stuff up from where he's been storing it for me for quite some time. We loaded that on the truck then it was over to Davis and the pulling out the roots began.
So, I'm out of Davis, my beloved home of these many years, the realization of an ambition, now fulfilled. It didn't really hit me until i was powering down the now-deceased Davis Free Community Wireless Project, that I was, in fact, leaving. Sigh.
Lots of trips up and down the stairs, always down with a pretty fair load started to work on my knees. By the evening, I was most certainly aware of the fact that my knees are not those of a young man. My dearest neighbors came home some time after dark and we visited for a while, then they went off to bed, So I brought the moving to a halt. Soon as I heard them rummaging around in the morning, I was back at it. And is so often the case, they came and began helping right as I really needed that push over the ridge. I have the best neighbors, i will miss them sorely. But a new chapter is beginning.
I took no pics, it was horrific, but I loaded that 27' truck to the door. Then up the road to State College. Soon as I pulled in, knocking the gutter off the side of the house, I manged to stick the truck in the backyard, spent the rest of the evening trying to unstick it. Failing that, I went to bed. Up on Monday, I realized how foolish I was being trying to unstick a full truck. So I unloaded it all over the backyard are, and then about 2 hrs later, managed to get it to move, then move out. Knocking what was left of the gutters off the house, I got it back out to the street, then began loading the shed. To the rafters and to the door, it all fit!
Rolled the big dummy up into the truck and headed off to take the truck back all the way across town. In typical U-Haul fashion, they stuck me for an extra day, I was supposed to have it back in by 9AM, or some such silliness. Whatever. I got on the big dummy, and headed back across town, my knees screaming at me the whole way, thank you Stoke Monkey for getting me home safe.
Big Dummy
Stoke Monkey, the knee saver!
Anyway, Google Maps gave me a bicycling route back across town that took me on a single track ride through freshly manured fields, my winter tires throwing big chunks of cow nutrient all over the place. it's a great thing, google maps. Sigh.
But, it was all done.
Then on Tuesday, I suffered with my knees, rode the big dummy to the post office to return a set of postal carrier mailbox keys and GSA credit cards that I found on the ride back from U-haul, then back to town to the library, then to the grocery, then home, hoping to keep my knees from just locking up.
Then today, I was feeling so much better, so Bob came over on his Transit
And despite all this cargo-age (portatis oneris) we opted for the car and trailer to go fetch in what we hope will be the last of the drywall for this phase, and loaded it into the house. Then Bob headed off down the road.
So, I went and started loading out some of my secret composted humus to prepare some beds for planting, and I'm already running late. but this stuff is wonderful, smells like spring time, shot through my mycelium.
This stuff was just a big pile of leaves in the fall, when Tracey and I dumped our vermicomposting bin out there in the leaves. Them little beings went to work on it. Need to get some more worm bins up and running, but there is so many 'need to's right now.
Speaking of which, I finally got around to this:
As if I needed all that technology to
Tell me, Yes, the Weather is Perfect!
