Today has been a long day around here. I had to wait for our garden trash container to be picked up and replaced with a regular trash container and since they didn’t come until about 2pm, I was very thankful that I ran all the errands I needed to on Wednesday so I wasn’t going crazy by the time he arrived.
Naturally I ended up looking like a silly woman when it did arrive and I was trying to open the front gate. We haven’t figured out what is wrong with gate still (I’ve got a hunch it may have been lightening now…which is my 4th hunch now? lol) but we’ve found the bolts to loosen so it can be opened by hand with a socket wrench. The container guy walks up the courtyard to the bio container so he can see how full it is and make sure he’s going to be able to stack them on top of each other so he can trade them out. (Have I mentioned how they do this before? They actually stack the empty container on top of the full one, then lift them both onto the truck, re-hook the chains onto the empty one, lift it out of the full one and set it down on the ground. Very interesting to watch lol)
I take my wrench and open the right side of the gate with no problem…but the left side only wants to open partially and then locks into place….which means that the bolt is not loose enough. So I take my socket wrench and turn to the left…”lefty loosey, right tighty” has gotten me through so many moments like this in life. But it still isn’t letting the door go and the bolt stops turning. So I go back in the other direction and by now the container delivery guy is standing there looking at me. He tries to tell me he thinks I’m turning it in the wrong direction and that “in Germany loosening it is in the other direction”…um, not really because I was turning it to the left. So I turn the bolt in the direction HE thinks it is again and it reaches the end and gets tight. Silly man. Then I try back to the left again and suddenly it works. Righty-o.
As soon as the container was on the ground and I had the gate closed behind the delivery guy, I put on my gloves and threw the bird perches I had placed in the horse stall into the container. No need to waste time, right? I considering taking on more stuff since the weather was just perfect after being not so lovely this morning…but since most of it is on top of the wine cellar in the barn, it would be much easier with two people so I decided to just let it be.
Here’s some of the junk from the top of the wine cellar. If one person stands up there we can just hand the stuff down and take it directly to the container or set it down and then move it all afterwards together.
And since that is certainly not going to be enough to fill it up, we may start on the space above the former pig stalls which will eventually likely become part of the climbing hall.
