It was time to get the last room in the old house cleaned out. I need to make the custom cabinet for the bathroom but I need a spot to assemble it and to finish it. The best spot for this is the old house. We have already started to stockpile bathroom remodel items in my eventual office space. I had to make a list of items we currently have as I was unsure where everything was located. It was a good thing I did as I could not find the 100’ 10/4 wire I need for installing the overhead bathroom heater. I searched everywhere and could not find it. Amazon said it had been delivered but I was unsure of that alleged fact. I finally remembered that I had taken two boxes out to the barn. I thought both boxes were for the fancy salt we got for the sheep. I checked last night when I went out to feed and lo and behold one of the boxes was the “alleged” 100’ of wire. It is now staged in the old house. The big ticket item left is the tin ceiling and our tile for the two short walls. I called on the wall tile and it was supposed to be here this week but I did not get a call. I won’t need it until about Feb 8 so I am not panicking yet. With the tin ceiling that only leaves two short walls to paint. I am thinking I may have enough tongue and groove boards to cover both walls but I have not talked with the project lead for approval. If I can do that then I will not have to do any Sheetrock work!
Today we worked on getting the old house emptied. I did take some time to help cleanup Annmarie’s laser wood pile. I cut off all of the unusable scraps and left her with a bunch of 4-8”x12” pieces. She will have to sort them all out but her burn pile and scrap pile is much smaller now.
Mr Rainman kept unloading shelves and piling it up in the old chicken coop. Once I was done with the honey do item we took another shelving unit out to the coop and then started to sort everything. There were piles every where but we managed to get it all sorted and put away. I even labeled the big black bins so we knew what was in them. We did find a bunch of heavy duty deck anchors and a bunch of electric fence supplies so those all got moved out to the fencing shed. I will not need to buy anchors for quite a while. We have one corner of the old chicken coop to clean out tomorrow. We are only going to take one more shelf unit out of the old house.
I installed two new over the window shelves in the old house and looked at how to arrange the room once we get it empty. I think we need to raise the wooden cabinet another six inches then I can slide one of the tool boxes under it. That will let me store all of the tools in one corner of the room. I am even thinking about moving the shelving unit in my office into this room. A lot of DeWalt tools are kept in that cupboard.
The baby chickens are getting big. I now have to fill their water dish every two days. It is almost time to hang the waterer with the peckers on it. It is a five gallon bucket with drink spouts on the bottom. It will last a week at a time so I don’t have to fill water so often. The chicks will stay in their area until they are fully feathered and run out of room. Once those conditions are met I will just latch the door open and let them wander in and out. That way they get to choose whether they want to interact with the other chickens or not.
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