Lordamercy! My girl & I went back over to my old place. We got everything except a few tools, cleaning supplies, dishes, step ladder and coffee maker.
While we were there, the Satanist scizophrenic out front threw the Tirade From Hell. I'm gonna miss that place like a toothache. jees.
And, one, more time, someone had broken in. This time, they opened the window and came in the apartment. freaks.
So, knowing the entire contents of my apartment are pretty much moved to our new house is a tremendous relief for me.
I just cleaned out the fridge here to make room for pickles, sauces and some frozen meats from over there.
I've hurt myself, working so hard and fast to get the hell out of that nut house.
So, I'm trying to take my girl's advice and take it easy today.
But the driveway's piled up with things that need to be unpacked, and I feel icky, like a white trash hillbilly, with all that stuff sitting out there in this tidy, neat neighborhood, where people bring their trash containers back in the minute the sanitation trucks leave.
I bought four, chicks: 2 aracona, 1 Rhode Island red and one black rock.
Porkchop, it turns out, is a chickenherd. He guards them from cats all day, as they scratch in the yard. He loves those chickens to death.
I bring them in, inside a bird cage, at night.
We bought some chicken wire and I've located lots of free lumber. So, my next big project is building a large enclosure for them, and for the cats and dog, when we're not here.
I want a nice shelter, waterproofed with plastic, before winter sets in. The walls will be lined with clear plastic, the rooves with black.
We're also talking about getting a goat. My girl's sister raises pygmy goats. She's going out there for a couple of months this winter. Maybe she can bring one home on the plane? I could give her my dog carrier, just in case it's possible...
Our front yard is quickly becoming a Zen garden. I bought 2 tiny boxwood trees, some petunias (for color, 'til winter), some herbs and 3 sale rosebushes. The neighbors really like it. I have the circular rounds from a cable spindle. I'll cut them in half and make Chinese style "moon" bridges out of them, painted white.
Our living room is rather Asian, too. My girl's into martial arts. She's a black belt in Karate. She has a full set of Kendo armor and all her belts. She also has several practice swords. I'll be displaying them all in the livingroom. I'd like some potted bromiliads and orchids, too. We have a small bamboo in here already.
I'd like to plant some tall bamboo outside the living room window, for privacy and shade, as it's on the south side.
Our kitchen's huge: two refrigerators, three tables, including the dining table which comfortably seats six.
My bedroom's off the kitchen and is decorated in rather a juvenile, cartoonish style.
Each of our bedrooms opens into the bath. It's decorated in heart-shaped baskets and decorations, wigs with hair ornaments in them, feather boas...just really girly, like a Hollywood dressingroom. It's big, too.
My studio's sort of a mess right now, but is shaping up slowly. Soon, I'll be able to produce radio in it.
We got broadband internet. So, I can FTP stories anywhere in the world from my girl's computer. I'm saving my borrowed computer for mostly sound editing and dial up.
And, of course, I have my trusty WebTV, from which I'm writing this. Bless the WebTV!
We'll have a huge garden in the big back yard. We're talking about ducks and a pond, too.
All in all, even though the move has been exhausting, frustrating, confusing and just nasty, everything's coming along very well.
And I'm away from those nasty, filthy, drunken, drugged, raging freaks in that hellhole I called "home" for over a year!
This place? This is home. I have my girl, my dog, my cats, my chickens, my fish, my garden, my studio....it's awesome.
I am the LUCKIEST girl in the WORLD!
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