Re: totally off topic, mostly : moving

On Mar 1, 5:33 pm, anyth...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:14:57 -0800 (PST), Dar <shelt...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:





On Mar 1, 5:00 am, Mike Brown <rocko...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dar wrote:
as in packing up and physically relocating . goes a little something
like this , starting a year ago.
ahem

lanlord might sell, price vague, still vague, being a dick, price
keeps going up,dick, dick,dick,
up, up, up, we decide to start looking around,expensive,
overpriced,ugly, moldy,too far, looks like the only way we get what we
want at our price is outside the city. bad, bad, bad areas, meth,
ugly land. finally, a good one, needs work, deal done,well needs a new
pump and wiring, patio needs a new roof and so I do that roof myself,
brutal, brutal, brutal, but damn, I'm adequate.
No rest, must pack and work and move and plan and buy and fix and
drive and get some help with drywall and plumbing,and I have to put in
electrical for the shop (3 garage spaces for my workshop !!) and grind
the concrete floors that sends dust everywhere and vacuum and sweep
and mop and seal with acrylic, and then there are the stinky old
toilets that have to go, and the water heater and on and on and on and
on it went for  3 whole months. we spent all our wad and made some
credit card companies happy too but no time for playing guitar which
sucks (insert commas at your own discretion) and finally we move in a
big uhaul at the end and start living with boxes but I have to work I
didn't slow down yet until now. okay 4 months , and my hands finally
relaxed and felt normal playing guitar (which sucks because I'm pretty
rusty by now). Now I'm a country boy like Oliver Wendell Douglas in
Hooterville but it's great because we have 4 acres by the rio grande
in the cottonwood forest , formerly swamp land , and  more than twice
the living and working area we had for about the same money, which
sucks because we rented for 18 years, but which doesn't suck because
now we have a real house that's ours ...

Damn, it's been a whirlwind , and we're definitely not in Kansas
anymore , but check check it
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p219/sheltech/

It would have been fun to blog the whole damn  transplant but there
was no time, no time,
and there really isn't now but here I am anyway . It's funny, the idea
of moving away from my childhood neighborhood was scary for a long
time, and a place in the country seemed totally alien, but like I just
said, here I am anyway . Home is where the art is , it's where you
park your chihuahuas at night and where there's a little time to play
guitar . and listen too.... I guess because I played my rmmga #'s 2 &
3 hits  today that I thought enough of here to post again. Yeah,
there's some great stuff on those .

Here today and gone forever ,
Dar

Hey Dar, I wondered where you'd got to. Nice house and land, looks at
though you'll be able to play as loud as you like.

How are the Baskerville hounds ?

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Hi everyone !!!  . Itb really has been a huge upheaval for us , very
traumatic and dramatic at times, but we've been at the new place for a
month , and things are coming along nicely . Some of the worst
memories of moving are blanked out ,
lost in the intensity and immensity of it all .Being replaced by new
memories of things that work, having places to put things in (we went
from 1250 sq. ft. total to 2900 sq. ft.  garages plus  house) , and of
putting nice things we had packed away in boxes ,  in said places, and
other fond , fledgeling memories . The chihuahua monsters love the new
digs , and will  eventually have a large , totally enclosed cage area
outside under a tree, covered in 1/2" grid  metal -wire cloth , which
will also be for the cats. With all the extra house space, you might
think I'd have fought for a room just for music and computers , but
the Mrs. got her way and has them all taken up by domestic uses. Looks
like I will be  shoe-horning music computers into a small spare
bedroom and someday eventually recording guitar again out in the shop.
Same as it ever was ...   and with that, here's part of another bit
about the move , that I posted elsewhere :

(Oh Give Me A Home Where The Chihuahuas Roam)
After we had finally moved the animals and beds and food down in a
last, mad rush, after a few days of wildly chaotic jamming and
throwing things around we had some surreal flashes straight out of the
Talking Head's 'Once In A Lifetime' . Seriously, I found myself in a
beautiful house, with a beautiful wife , and I actually did find
myself asking myself "well.... how did I get here ?" , and I
remembered the dozens of
trips in the pickup, ferrying supplies and stuff down to the new
place,
thinking abstractly "where does that highway go to ?" .... and "am I
right?, am I wrong? ... my god what HAVE I done ?!". Letting the days
go by , letting the days go by , after the money's gone . After the
money's gone, we pull out the credit cards and keep buying more stuff
because the water heater went out and we need rugs and paint and used
bookcases and new curtains and Direct TV and on and on and on. Once in
a lifetime because I am NEVER EVER moving again , no way Jose . I'm
leaving this house in a can to be sprinkled around down by the river ,
which is a stone's throw past the back edge of the property ."

Haven't seen any sheep around, but plenty of horses , cows, and a few
goats . I suppose the goats will  do ...

DS

Moving is always a pain - you lose stuff you want and find stuff you
don't need - last time we moved I found a pile of valentine's cards
from girls I haven't seen in 30 -odd years - and lost a Nikon FE2. You
can guess which was more important...

Nice wirework on the website. How are you selling it?

Cool grounds BTW - couldn't see a picture of the house. Glad you're in
and getting there anyway..:-)

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Thanks everybody !...
let's see... the wire sculptures... haven't sold any in a few
years ; they are more of a personal
obsession/expression than a commercial endeavour. Now that there is
unlimited room for them, I can't help but think of trying to build
some really big ones. But it's dangerous and difficult so who knows?.

We spent our wad on the down payment so I had to do most of the
repairs myself, lots of on-the-job training ,
like melting roofing rolls down onto the new plywood sections. Crazy
stuff too, like walking along the open rafters
at night and throwing stuff around ; taking the ex-con junkie down to
help grind floors... he was a nice guy, a little on the scary side but
ended up flaking out and using again. Epic and seemingly endless
days , loading the pickup , shopping frantically, driving, fixing up,
and unloading the truck and driving back home (oh yeah, we are on the
edge of Belen NM ,
property adjacent to the drainage ditches that skirt the rio grande
river , 30 miles south of my former lifelong home, Albuquerque) .
Well, I think I've painted that picture well enough. Lots of stress
from paying two sets of bills for 3 months,
almost running out of money and just keeping on keeping on in huge ,
parachute-less leaps of faith (things have worked out for us the whole
19 years we've been married, so why would they stop now?). Yeah,
enough about that ... except that 19 years of packrat collecting of
equipment and debris from a small manufacturing business is a LOT of
tedious junk to pack and move and ... freaking keep !. WTF !!???...
This is just the aftermath , the outgassing after the fact; I was way
too busy and intense during the move to even think about it clearly ,
much less write coherently (perhaps an exercise in futility on any
given day ) about it. But I lived to tell the tale , and now I've
done that , so it's almost time to get back to monkey business as
usual. Lots of loose ends and details yet , but who doesn't have
those? .

Anyway, nice to (sorta) be back. I always seem to cycle back
eventually. I sorta lost my newsgroup virginity here, so for that (and
other reasons) reason, it's a special place .

El Dar



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