Wisconsin Or Bust

 First of all, general updates: Dishwasher and disposal are installed and operational!  All plumbing and electrical working smoothly.  I have run the dishwasher twice, and all seems to be working just great!   Now Bryan has to rebuild the cupboard and drawer.  Then I can do more unpacking! Speaking of unpacking, another load of spent cardboard went to the recycle place this week.   Parts are here to fix the John Deere.  But SOMEBODY has been at work the past couple days, so he won't get it fixed until HIS weekends (Monday/Tuesday for now).  It's so nice that he's working!  Takes the edge off our worries! No rototilling yet.  Too wet.  On Tuesday night 5/21, there was the crazy continuous thunderstorm, and it rained buckets...and buckets.....and buckets.  It didn't let up for maybe 3 hours or so.   I went to the first Farmer's Market of the season on Wednesday 5/22.  It's like 3 blocks from our house....

 Installation of the dishwasher/disposal is ongoing.  There was some screwing around with the breaker needing to be added.  I helped Bryan get that put in.  With the power off, the basement gets pretty dark.  I had to hold the flashlight.   For both of us to be in the basement, we have no one to police Poor Kittie, and make sure he doesn't go down there.  And no doors we can close him into unless you put him in a bathroom or bedroom.  So, Bryan has these plastic covered cardboard signs left over from the City Market fuel center.  We used these a lot on the move.  We put them in between the furniture to keep them from scratching when we loaded them in the trailer.  They are great if you have to have a waterproof...thing...to put down on the ground or whatever.  And they are big, the size of a piece of plywood.  We took one of those and blocked off the kitchen door while Poor Kittie lounged in the living room.  The...

 A couple updates: Bryan finally had his transfer from Kroger go through.  He started at Pick 'n Save on Sunday 5/19.  The pay isn't great, and he lost his seniority and his vacation time, but he gets to keep his benefits.  It's a huge relief that we will have some money coming in, and we will have our medical and dental insurance.  Our attitude about is, "It's about FREAKING time!"  It took way too long, but at least it's done now and we can move forward.   As for my job hunting, the Barry Weymiller job was put on hold until after June 1.  I am still in the running, but they are had a bunch of people go on vacation, so they won't make a decision on it until then.  I interviewed yesterday to be a Deputy Clerk of the Court for Price County.  I think it went OK.  It's another job that could go either way.  I also went in person to do an application for Saunders Wood Specialties, where I would be part of the office staff....

 Bryan got paperwork to fill out yesterday from the old Kroger store, to give to the new Kroger store.  Man, super slow!  But things are happening.  We might get there yet.  Meanwhile, Bryan has applied at other places.   I received a call yesterday from Barry Wehmiller.  They have postponed new hiring until June 1.  I'm still in the running for the inside sales job.  Because I am still receiving unemployment benefits from Colorado, I'm still required to do my 5 job search contacts per week.  I had applied for a couple back when I did BW, and one of the was for Deputy Clerk of the Court, for Price County.  I have an interview with them on Wednesday 5/15.  I will be filling out more applications today.  

 Lots of things happening at the Homestead Act. That's what we have been calling it lately.  We are kind of acting like we are homesteading, with .75 of an acre, which is probably all we can handle at our age.  We wanted to homestead, but it wasn't really in the cards.  However, we are doing it to a certain extent, and we wanted a name that nods to it being a homestead, but not a real homestead.  So....Homestead Act.  Catchy?  Not sure.  Comment your opinions.  On Monday, 5/6, Bryan took a load of broken-down boxes to the transfer station. (once again, we don't have a county landfill or a dump.  It all gets trucked somewhere.)  He loaded it in the car because they charge less, and he didn't want to have to cover the load.  Seen below.  You can see we have unpacked a lot! On Tuesday 5/7, we went to Hill City, Minnesota, almost 4 hours away from Park Falls, to pick up a rototiller,   We bought it on Facebook for ab...

 Since I last wrote, here's an update: We got the "credenza" for the TV, assembled it, and put the TV on it.  We think it looks good.   To me, it looks a little "fat guy in a little boat" because the TV wider than the table.  But we liked this one.  It's actually a coffee table.  We wanted a longer one, but the price of tables went up considerably as they got longer.  So, this is what we ended up with.  I like it.  It goes with our mismatched farmhouse chic!  We decided to place the TV there because that's where the cable ended up for the internet.  So...that's where it goes for now.   And now for the BIG NEWS! We are done with Tomah!  We got the storage unit emptied out and swept on Saturday.  Ya, we know, we should have gotten it done before May 1, so we didn't have to pay rental for May.  But we just didn't have it in us.  Remember, we are old, and at times have been sickly.  And because we...

I'm not sure I will have the time to blog every day.  It's looking like that will be the case going forward.  If I have time, I will, but for the most part will try a weekly posting to see how we do.   Today's update:  Bryan continues to work on the dishwasher.  Today he is working on the desk in his office.  He is going to use my old giant desk, which we agree won't fit into my office, and I'm going to order a new desk, actually two:  a small front desk that faces the outside door, and another small desk that has a hutch, for inside the closet.   Bryan is planning the garden.  He is thinking a 20ft x 20ft patch for this year.  He has all the seeds and starts, but we don't have the transplant items yet.  We didn't really have time to start tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, or cauliflower.  So those will have to be bought when the time comes to get them planted.  I bet him money that no pumpkins will grow.  I can ...