Wow.

[saffronhare]

Lotsa fun this weekend -- and with power tools, too!


I got to help out with the fence-building as part of the Dingo Relocation Project by operating half of the two-man auger for a while...one of many people diermuid wore out while digging meelions of post holes. (It turns out that the princesses are excellent nail banger-outers and plank haulers.) It is a mighty project, and I look forward to putting in more hours this coming weekend. Perhaps I will even remember to bring my hammers this time. Many thanks to triadruid and featherynscale for hosting the day, to zylch for her mad site management skillz, and to the other lovely people I met, but whose names I am unfortunately tripping over. Also: Princess Pixie had her first tick, which was Big Fun at home later on.

Plenty of folks for boffer fighting on Sunday, including one new person who whalloped me good. Plus: A fountain to cool off in!. I was not as careful with reapplication of sunscreen for the little ones as I should have been, so they have a bit of sunburn on their shoulders. Poor kids. Bad mommy...no biscuit.

And yesterday was a very nice (and dry) indoor Memorial Day Picnic at fionnabhar's place. YAY for banana pudding! I lurve me some 'naner puddin.

This week, we enter one of the final phases of prep for The Moooove. I've got a few items that could use new homes:

• A computer desk with nooks and crannies and a printer shelf, mild to moderate mileage but still quite sturdy. I'd like to get $25 for it, if possible. This is one heavy mutha, so you'll need help and something bigger than my Liberty to pick it up. It was darn near too heavy for me and princessboredom to move at all. Just getting it out to the garage was quite the production! Available immediately.


• Two twin-size beds (with frames, box springs, and mattresses). One is much firmer than the other, but both are in decent shape. I'd like to get $20 each, but the beds will not be available until June 15th. (The girls are transitioning to a set of bunkbeds instead, to conserve floor space in their new room.)


• A bedroom dresser, with very useful drawers of varying sizes and depths. Dibs called by zylch. It's a low, long dresser of an indeterminate greenish-goldish color (sort of aged bronze?). Well constructed. Make a fair offer, or just offer to take it off my hands. Available as early as this weekend, if you're motivated.


• A kitchen table, kind of farmhouse-style. White legs with a pretend "butcher block" top that's seen better days. (I keep a vinyl tablecloth on top.) The legs will come off pretty easily for transportation. This item is free, and available immediately to whomever can come get it at some point while I'm home of an evening.


• A sizable bookshelf, made by agrnmn and his dad during his Boy Scout days. Real wood construction, hardy survivor of many moves. It's simply too large in scale for either apartment. (Offered with permission of agrnmn.) Available immediately. No particular price or barter in mind for it, but plan on two people to carry it down the stairs. Something around 4' high and 4' wide, painted blue for the moment, with the standard depth of a good bookshelf.


• Another sizable bookshelf, made of pine. Relatively unfinished and huge. Like, taller than me and about 4-5 feet wide. It's been in the basement, so the bottom edges need some cleaning up, and you'll need help getting it up the stairs, but WOW can this baby hold some books. Available immediately. Free to a good home.

Craigslist, Freecycle, and the GC garage sale are near-future options, but I wanted to float these out here first. :)

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think we *will* need that. They're sharing a dresser right now, but that's quickly becoming not the greatest thing in the world. I'm hoping to paint the old "white" dresser while they're at Poppy Camp and it'd be super to sort of coordinate the colors. Let me know when a good time to come fetch that would be? Thank you!

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should keep it until Moving Day and take it straight to the apartment. We'll probably need the Jeep for that. It'll need some touch up, but I might even have the leftover paint still hanging around.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good plan. If you can let me know what paint color you used, then I can acquire a pint or so of a matching shade to paint the other dresser.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

How about I just give you the three-quarters of a gallon I have leftover?

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Oh! It's that much? Er. Okay, then.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I needed (or thought I did) a little more than two quarts and the gallon was cheaper. It might be closer to a half because I also painted the bed frame