Clean-Up

When I say I’ve been extremely busy, I’m not lying. However, it did occur to me that it isn’t the only reason why I haven’t been rushing to get on with working on the Devil Queen. I am sick of working on this bloody whore. Really. I apparently burned up lot of energy and motivation during those few months leading up to the appraisal. And, I know that I’ve whined about motivation et cetera before, but, at this point, I don’t care. If this doesn’t change soon, it will become a problem.

Today we spent six hours hauling lumber we salvaged from the Devil Queen’s roof and porches three years ago. It has been in storage at Scarlet’s grandparents house since then, and they asked us to come and get it since they are trying to sell their house now. We hauled it all to Liz’s as payment for all the painting she did on the Queen this year. She’s scavenging building materials for a small cabin she’d like to build on her property up in the hills north of Atkins. Pretty land.

We have impeccable timing. Today was the first day in weeks that it didn’t rain. It was also the hottest day of the year to date. I think it was nearly 100 degrees out. Good timing, no?

You'd think that after hauling off four huge truckloads of lumber that we’d be finished, but we are not. We still have one truckload of rocks and three or four loads of bricks; this is going to the Devil Queen for the retaining wall, patios, and walks. I don’t know when we’ll get around to that.

And, my camera has been in Bentonville for the last two weeks, so no photos for you all. I have couple interesting bits I’d like to share, but I guess that will have to wait too. Bugger.