Tuesday, May 12, 2015

How do I pack thee?

A week ago, the lumber yard boys delivered our new kitchen cabinets. That's my son Everett on the ground.


I've been tasked with emptying the top shelves in the existing cabinets, as they will be replaced first. The arborite for the countertop hasn't arrived yet, so the bottom cabinets will wait anyway.



This is the side I haven't emptied yet. It takes more than five minutes! I think I've only got two cardboard boxes left to pack into, too, so that may delay me till I get some more empties.

Oh well. Scott's been in the field doing whatever it is he does out there on the tractor at this time of year (that and bottle-feeding a calf and milking its mother, as she's having udder troubles); he's also been in town working on someone else's house; our cupboards must wait for a rainy day, I'm told. So all in good time.

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  1. Good luck getting your kitchen put together.

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  2. I love the look of open shelves with glass in them. I guess you're changing that. We did too when we moved out of a house into a condo,but with no improvement that I could find

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    1. I like the open shelves on top, but decided to put doors on the new cabinets as I'm less likely to break wood than glass! and with no doors, god but the shelves get dirty. I know they will anyway, but I hope less so.

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  3. I'm an open shelf woman, I need to visually see what I have as if I don't I think I'm without and buy another. Simple creature that I am. I agree on the grease price I pay.
    Just got caught up with you. I would listen to podcasts but not anymore, it impeded my thinking and awareness of my surroundings.
    Also garbage, I saw a fridge - AN EFFIN FRIDGE! - tossed in the ditch on a busy road (with a free dump 3 km away). Makes me sick. and lotto tickets, and Horton crap.
    We have a coastal cleanup on Saturday.
    XO
    WWW

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    1. The local recycling depot that is operated by a sheltered workshop sort of setup (my son Emil works there) is about to cease handling recycling because people don't just leave recycling, they leave garbage (dirty diapers, for example; recently a container of used needles) and other things that create a workplace hazard. I suspect some people are so uneducated and lazy that no matter how convenient and easy you try to make it for them by providing services, it isn't enough. You'd have to actually hold their hands. Or catch them in the act and throw the book at them. Maybe there are some who just never learn. It's hornswoggling. We get stoves and such along the highway here, too. Maybe one day those aerial drones will be put to use identifying people who pull this shit; I'd like to see that.

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    2. In the city, the people who picked up the recycling left a note to those who put in the wrong stuff, and refused to pick up from those who didn't follow the rules. This could be tried out there too; I suppose it's more work because the pickup people would have to make sure to notice who was throwing in garbage, but a note could be made up and duplicated in quantity. People would change and the sincere recyclers wouldn't have their services cut. (Full disclosure: I got that note once, and then checked the website to make sure I understood fully what was accepted and what wasn't. It was a simple mistake which I corrected--no diapers!)

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    3. There was no recycling pickup; you had to take your stuff, all pre-sorted, and put it into the appropriate bin in an outdoor yard that no one oversaw. Due to people's careless unawareness or maybe ignorance (and that is easy to be, because they only sent out a flyer once a year, if that, stating what you could and couldn't take there, and of course no one can find that flyer when they want to check something), so they did put up cameras in hopes of deterring the rule-breakers. Obviously that didn't work. Anyway, the new company contracted to do the recycling will be picking it up from businesses in town that have bins; I don't know what the general public will have to do. A website with the information is a good idea, though you'd be surprised how many people out here don't have the internet. We have a high senior population and they get their news and information from the Wadena News.

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    4. Oh, yeah, I do forget how different it is from the city. I long for the lovely sounds and sights of the country, but I don't think I could handle how vigorous it is to survive and get things done away from the many extra services available in the city. I was just reading the Wadena News, pretty interesting. I couldn't find your knick knack thing though.

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    5. Julie, it's just a weekly "column" of items too brief to expand into a story, but possibly of interest to local readers. It's called This and That, and we don't put it on the webpage. There's a lot we don't post there. For instance, we have a fabulous food columnist -- but we save him for subscribers to the print issue, and only post him to the webpage once in a while for a treat.

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