These are both 'before' and 'during' pictures - I will show 'after' pictures on a blog in the future.....
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To those of you who read my blog, you know that we purchased a 40-acre parcel with an old log cabin on it. We have determined that it was constructed in the late 1800's. There are also a few dilapidated buildings, a large machine shed and an older mobile home on this acreage. This 40-acre parcel is in the middle of hundreds of acres of state land/wetlands. So, it's just us and the local wildlife.
We are the only ones on this gravel, dirt road. The previous owners appreciated the isolation because they used this land to hunt. The wildlife was all very relieved to know that we are not hunters - mostly vegetarian.... with a little chicken here and there.
This old log cabin is still as sturdy and strong as when it was first built in the late 1800's. All of the occupants since then (except the original occupants) added poorly constructed, cheaply built additions to it over the years. Mostly, because it's hard to cut into 100-year-old logs to put a log addition onto the original cabin. We learned that several generations lived in the cabin and then it was used as a 'camp' by family members for years. Fortunately, there were several windows originally in the log cabin and they were somewhat updated. We would replace all of them with double pane windows. But what they did over the last few years was to cut in sky lights in the roof. Which actually turned out to be a really nice light for the cabin and also for my plants.
Anyway, how to be able to lift and get all of this garbage out the door and into our several industrial dumpsters that will be picked up in a few days. With what these dumpsters cost, we needed to fill them up and as quickly as possible. The largest items to be disposed of were several refrigerators, several sofa beds and as I said before, tables that were built out of two by fours. All really heavy, hard to move items. We both went at the couches and furniture with a Sawzall. The sofa beds are large, heavy and bulky. So, we went at those first - cut them in half and dragged them a piece at a time out to the dumpsters. I insisted that my husband put a big piece of plywood on the deck - because if you remember we named this deck - the death deck - because of the holes and structural problems. A person could fall through very easily - especially if you are carrying/moving something. So, I felt better with the large piece of plywood covering all of the scary parts and our trips to the dumpsters continued. Nothing felt better than when you could drag something out onto the deck and then push it off into the dumpster.
The cooler November weather was very welcome with us having to do so much physical work, and for so many days. But of course, it was getting darker earlier. So, we would turn on big construction lights that my husband had and keep working until we just couldn't anymore. Seems as though as long as you don't sit down, you can keep going. But, if you sit, you're done. Tomorrow is another day.
At the end of the day, we would sit quietly and listen - to complete silence. It was glorious....We would join in on the conversation of two owls that were hooting back and forth. They didn't seem to mind. We were just a different animal to them. I wonder what we were saying to them....
