A blog for the last Mudge-Seehausen Annual in Oxford, New York. Forward into the past.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
The End Of An Era: Emptying the Barn & Painting Finds New Home
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Unless you want to see what is going on after the annual.
Dexter brought two friends in the morning, and in less than an hour these biceps triplets had the mattresses and trunks down from the attic, the mattresses that Jared and Richard are taking down into the living room and the top of the barn cleared out.
At one point I heard laughter by the dumpster, and it was the guys laughing as they chucked Mary's sculpture - what did we name him? - into the dumpster. I said they could have him but they graciously declined.
Richard, Jared, and Nina arrived just before lunch. The truck rental was uncertain at that point because of UHaul red tape, but miraculously after lunch a 17 foot truck showed up at Norwich and the next stage of the move was on. You wouldn't believe how hard Jared and Richard worked to move all that stuff onto the truck. That was one heavy load of furniture, the counter from the barn, tables and chairs, all of Jared's big furniture from the blue room, a chair from the living room, boxes of stuff, dishes, lamps, and the hobby horse and a pair of wooden skis.
These were a couple of tired bad boys by the end of the day.
Anyway Richard and Nina drove back to Hurleyville Saturday night, and Jared spent the night here. He will go down to Hurleyville today and help Richard unload the truck.
Here's the thing. The truck definitely had enough in it to furnish a two bedroom house, and yet this house STILL feels fully furnished!
We have been continuing to put stuff out on the lawn, and it all goes. How great is that!
I will take some pictures of the empty rooms. If you don't want to be on the list that receives them because you just can't bear to see it, let me know. Richard took the painting of himself that graced the kitchen, and the portraits are gone from the dining room. It's definitely happening folks, we just gotta get that kitchen cleaned out now. Praise that dumpster!
I drove out to get some milk at about 7:30 am today and as I pulled into the driveway there was a guy standing there with his dog looking longingly at the painting in the dumpster. The one you all got the picture of a couple of days ago.
He told me he lives over on Taylor street and that he had been looking at that painting every time he walked by with his dog the last couple of days. He couldn't believe someone would throw it away, so I told him to take it.
Last we looked out the window, he was happily walking down North Washington with dog leash in one hand and that rather large painting in another, off to a new home, to live on in Oxford.
2 comments:
Unless you want to see what is going on after the annual.
Dexter brought two friends in the morning, and in less than an hour
these biceps triplets had the mattresses and trunks down from the attic,
the mattresses that Jared and Richard are taking down into the living
room and the top of the barn cleared out.
At one point I heard laughter by the dumpster, and it was the guys
laughing as they chucked Mary's sculpture - what did we name him? - into
the dumpster. I said they could have him but they graciously declined.
Richard, Jared, and Nina arrived just before lunch. The truck rental
was uncertain at that point because of UHaul red tape, but miraculously
after lunch a 17 foot truck showed up at Norwich and the next stage of
the move was on. You wouldn't believe how hard Jared and Richard worked
to move all that stuff onto the truck. That was one heavy load of
furniture, the counter from the barn, tables and chairs, all of Jared's
big furniture from the blue room, a chair from the living room, boxes of
stuff, dishes, lamps, and the hobby horse and a pair of wooden skis.
These were a couple of tired bad boys by the end of the day.
Anyway Richard and Nina drove back to Hurleyville Saturday night, and
Jared spent the night here. He will go down to Hurleyville today and
help Richard unload the truck.
Here's the thing. The truck definitely had enough in it to furnish a
two bedroom house, and yet this house STILL feels fully furnished!
We have been continuing to put stuff out on the lawn, and it all goes.
How great is that!
I will take some pictures of the empty rooms. If you don't want to be
on the list that receives them because you just can't bear to see it,
let me know. Richard took the painting of himself that graced the
kitchen, and the portraits are gone from the dining room. It's
definitely happening folks, we just gotta get that kitchen cleaned out
now. Praise that dumpster!
Subject: monday morning in oxford
I drove out to get some milk at about 7:30 am today and as I pulled into
the driveway there was a guy standing there with his dog looking
longingly at the painting in the dumpster. The one you all got the
picture of a couple of days ago.
He told me he lives over on Taylor street and that he had been looking
at that painting every time he walked by with his dog the last couple of
days. He couldn't believe someone would throw it away, so I told him to
take it.
Last we looked out the window, he was happily walking down North
Washington with dog leash in one hand and that rather large painting in
another, off to a new home, to live on in Oxford.
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