The love affair lasted only a day, and then I realized the transmission and frame were cracked. 14 months later, $9,500 fewer, and a lot of stress and discouragement passed, it’s now sold and no longer in it’s usual place.
The gentleman who bought it yesterday came to get it started today, and he was successful. He got it going and drove it to the bottom of the hill down by the mailboxes. He’ll get it picked up and gone tomorrow. But it’s done. It’s over. It’s yet another heavy loss of fundage, but at least it’s not sitting there as an eternal project and a weight on my shoulders anymore.
Slowly, I’m whittling down the forest of projects.
Speaking of forests, I spent a good little while in the forest today with the chainsaw and ax. I took down several trees, not sure how many (dead trees, not living ones). There are so many vines everywhere that I think they were the killers of the trees, or at least quite likely. Those vines make it hard to get the trees down as well, as the trees are hooked together with vines, so if you cut one down, often times, it… doesn’t come down because it’s tied to the other trees with the vines. That can make it quite an adventure to actually get a tree to the ground. Instead of just felling a tree, I often have to chop it several times. I’ll cut it once, and it’ll fall of the stump but stay standing. Then I cut it again maybe 5 feet off the ground, and it falls again. Then I cut it again, and each time it sort of whittles it shorter and shorter until it’s broken free from the vines and falls over.
So… lots of trees cut down and lots of vines chopped through. Hopefully, it’ll help the health of the forest. There are some places where there are so many vines that it’s… crazy to look at. It’s like almost all you see is vines in some places, some of them as thick as your leg! (thigh, not calf!!)
Anyway, spent a decent amount of time working on my March tax info, getting set up to file my March sales and use taxes and getting everything solid, so I don’t have the same issues this coming tax season that I’ve had this last year. I’m staying on top of it this year. 🥳
I’m to bed a lot later than I expected, and I’m really tired. Making progress little by little. Next up, I think, is to sell the Nissan Sentra. I’d like to get my BMW pain and AC fixed, too.
Projects are always there. How many am I going to do? Modern English is there, too, and my nonprofit stuff. That’s a question for my accountant this week, if it’s going to be best to start as a nonprofit, or just do for profit. I’m not sure. We’ll see.
Good night, folks. Progress. Hope y’all are well.
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 