We have had a great time this last week. Leslie was on Spring break and was able to hang out with friends and have a great time just catching up over coffee. She spent most of the day Friday working with the Equine club members as she fills in for the instructor who is on Maternal leave.
This weekend we roped a few friends into helping us with a ponderous project at our house in Corvallis. We have been trying to fix it up to sell for the last few months and have had trouble trying to paint it. We have had two painters unable to finish the job because of weather and that has pushed back our other projects. So this weekend we decided that we were just going to push through even though the paint was not done.
I was so excited to go that I actually woke up at 3:00 am on Saturday morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. We had asked our friends to be at the apartment at 6:00 am (I know, we’re crazy) and so we got out of bed at 5:00 and got doughnuts for everyone and were on the road at 6:20. Alex, Jenni, Leslie and I drove over together and Seth met us in Corvallis. It was a beautiful drive with fresh snow, the sunrise over the mountains and a beautiful river to follow for most of the dive.
When we arrived we broke up into teams and attacked the gardens and out side for the majority of the day with Seth working on trimming out the house. All the old junk that had been sitting in the shed for the past three owners (more the a decade) was removed and taken to the dump. To give you an idea of how much junk had accumulated in this shed, this was our second trip to the landfill and we deposited more then 3000 lbs. In addition we found 6 gallons of used antifreeze, 10 gallons of old paint, 10 quarts of used motor oil, 1 gallon of paint thinner, and a can of neon green spray paint. All of these last items we are having to find alternate ways of dealing with because they are all toxic.
On the way do the dump we got an impromptu lesson in air dynamics as a tarp we were using to keep everything down caught the wind and lifted the 50 lbs cinder block out of the trailer and threw it at the car behind us. Luckily our tarp has terrible aim and missed the car but the chunks that came of the block after it hit the ground also went in to the oncoming lane and it took 15 minutes to clean it all up.
We all made it through the day fairly unscathed and slept well that night.