Chimneys in the light, and incredible warmth. But a long way to go in a very short period of time. Shares needed.

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The sight of those chimneys makes me unreasonably happy. The sun seems to like them, too.

Freezing at night (which is still better than teens), but the last two days, the high has been around 70 (71 yesterday, to be exact). That warmth was kind of mitigated today, though, by high winds. Truth be told, I'd rather have the cold; it's less hard on my body than the winds, and my joints have been aching all day. Well, that's nothing new; that's actually 24/7/365. What I mean is that the wind makes them ache worse.

But I'm sleeping mostly through every night, something I haven't done in more years than I can remember. And the house is so warm that last night, for example, we lit a fire only in the smaller woodstove, the one connected to that chimney up there. We'll probably do the same tonight. 

There's so far to go.

It also makes me unreasonably happy to have a couple of days "off," meaning that no crews are here to work and Wings and I have some space to ourselves. But Monday will be here again shortly, and right now, I need them to get that upstairs sink functional, get the downstairs bathroom done, and get the deck done so that Sherm and Marcos can go to work on the exterior stuff. We're running out of time. So we'll be riding herd on everybody harder than usual, and if I have to keep stepping in to get shit done, I will, because we are NOT spending another winter in this tin can for anything. [Don't get me wrong, out crew is great, but sometimes their sense of urgency is not what it should be, because they don't get what it's like.] For the moment, though, I have more work to do and the light is fading fast, so the rest is cut-and-paste.

In the meantime, we'll be trying to get as much other stuff done as possible this weekend to move along the liveability factor. But there's still a very long way to go. We have to get the bathrooms functional, and right now, neither of them is. There's still exterior work to get done before winter really settles in, and interior stairs and shelving and don't even get me started on the currently-nonexistent kitchen. So please, keep sharing our links:

• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Lowe's cards (the physical version) via our Amazon wishlist;
• Lowe's e-cards (delivered via e-mail) here; and
• Home Depot cards via the company site. The e-version using my e-mail address is great; I take the tablet to the store with me, and they scan it off the screen.
• Our Amazon wishlist generally.
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. It's not complete; what's on it so far are drapes for the upstairs, associated curtain rods, bath rugs for both bathrooms, and doormats and a few other miscellaneous items. Most important: curtain rods/hold-backs and drapes for upstairs; towel bars and associated fixtures for the downstairs bath.
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. Also not complete, but covers a number of the area rugs needed for the upstairs and some kitchen items. I've finally added a bunch of items to it, although nothing in the way of small tables or lamps or kitchen items beyond three basic things, because yesterday proved to be a time-suck of epic proportions, and today was more of the same. What I did get to is all of the rugs for the whole house, and a few basic furniture items. But about Wayfair, and VERY IMPORTANT: They make it possible to crowdfund each item. So if you'd like to help, but the prices are too much for one person? You can kick in 20 bucks, or ten, or five, on any one item; many small donations can add up to one item. Even the backordered/out-of-stock items can be crowdfunded in advance. Right now, the two most important items are probably finishing funding of the chaise and the microwave (they get the microwave back in stock every few days), both of which are already partially funded. It's a slow process, but every day I find a few more items that fall into the badly-needed category, because the wiring and mold and lime and everything else in this toxic tin can has destroyed so much of what we used to have. I'm sickened by the amount of stuff we have to throw out (on top of the things that were simply ruined, such as the microwave fried by the wiring in this place).

Just like last night, I still have work to do tonight, and this was again a difficult day in a week that was difficult for both the pace and what I mentioned in my final post two nights ago. For now, many thanks and much love from us both, for donations, gift cards, shares, recs, moral support, and just generally helping me not lose my mind. Not much has changed on the health front:  As I've been saying daily, it seems, this has been a difficult day health-wise, with my flare itself seeming to flare, no doubt in part due to our high winds and drastic weather changes. But there are also the breathing difficulties, and sundry other issues secondary to the AI problems, and so I am moving very, very slowly, and accomplishing things only with quite a lot of difficulty. I'm going to be slow, and late, and unfocused; please bear with me while we try to get into a much healthier space. We are both so thankful for each and every one of you who made it possible for us to sleep now, for the first time in seven years, in a safe and healthy (and warm!) place.

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