JestDucky
Posted on March 14, 2007
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JestDucky
I’m married, have 2 grown girls. Hubby has 2 grown boys and a grown daughter. I watched the two girls my oldest gave birth to be born…helped deliver Kellie-Ann even. Hubby has 8 grands, we were there but didnt watch. So we really have 5 kids n 10 grands.
I hate listing out my health problems, I prefer to simply say I have fibro and most of the related things that go with it, it doesnt seem as depressing. I’ve had surgeries and therapies n meds etc etc etc.
About a year ago my Hubby n I bought this home made log cabin in Maine. Everybody else wanted to tear it down. You couldnt really even get to it, lots of ledges sticking up in the driveway, trees down across the long driveway, broken down fallen over bldgs on the way…
The cabin had 5 acres way in the woods. Unfortunately the “yard” had been used as their actual dump for 40 years! Appliances bedding trash dead animals etc etc Ugh! There was a rickety door w trash bags for windows. The smell about knocked you out from outside. There was wet insulation hanging as ceilings, framed walls w sheets n blankets for privacy, an unfinished floor soaked through w cat urine…one hole we saw whiskers poke out through. There was 1 hanging bulb but thered been no electric for 3 yrs. There was no plumbing, what little there was had burst, the kitchen had a cardboard counter and an old flopsy faucet. The only heat was 2 wood stoves she was keeping. The spaces between the logs had baby clothes, slippers, unfinished insulation, table cloths and blankets between them to keep out the cold. We viewed the cabin w flashlights and still couldnt see a thing. The foundation was good and the logs were seasoned n settled. Some broken windows and the side walls werent finished. The stairs had like a ceiling over them that made what we called a superslide(like at the fair) in the upstairs there was no wall there, just a superslide w stairs under it. Evil n druggie things were written all over the walls upstairs. Piles n piles of stuff everywhere, had to walk through sideways. I wanted a place that needed me as much as I needed to be needed so we bought it.
Even w fibro etc I loved cleaning and fixing it up. Its not done. We did most of the work ourselves, actually I did more than my share but I love it. Before n after, thats me.
We filled our cabin w up to 5 cats and a dog and fish and plan to have goats, chickens, bunnies n hopefully a horse or two. We have wild turkeys walk into the kitchen, more than 20 bird feeders.
I watch my Kellie-Ann so her Mom can work, but not this winter so I’m suffering empty nest too. I watch most of the grands on the weekends.
I got disability about in 2000? Lost all sense of being a needed person. FT helped change that, I get to talk to ppl who understand. Ppl jump right up to help each other, and sometimes I can still help somebody!
I like the long intros the best so my profiles long too lol. Soul also added a link to my 360 page, everybody’s welcome.
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