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21hens-incharge said:
Yeah losing my salvaged 10' oak 6x6 boards sent me over the edge. I am not proud of losing my cool but dang those....I had plans for those.

He has been saying for months he would clean the shed and make room. I just don't think it is as high a priority for him as it is for me.
I plan to claim a 3'x4' section in the front corner. Less if I can squeeze things in tighter and keep access.

I am also going to set up the bitty broody house with mods since I brought in large fowl chicks. I did tell him that but do not know if he listened. I just need to decide WHERE to put it.
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That is some valuable wood. Good ammo if he complains about you putting stuff you need for the garden in "his" area. Men seem to "forget" these things very conveniently, they need us to remind them of their past misdeeds!:p
 
Molpet said:
10 ft Oak.... and he got rid of it :mad: :barnie:sick what was he thinking
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I don't think he realized just how much it would tick me off. Then again.....he DID do it while I was on a trip to Costco which is a 40 minute trip each way plus time in the store.......He may have planned it.

Parront said:
That is some valuable wood. Good ammo if he complains about you putting stuff you need for the garden in "his" area. Men seem to "forget" these things very conveniently, they need us to remind them of their past misdeeds!:p
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He won't have an issue with me adding stuff to the shed. He said several times he was going to make room there for the tools. I would love to remove that workbench.....he has not used it in 3+ years and it is full of clutter......very full of clutter.

I think I will try and talk him into trading me spaces......I get the back shed and he gets the bigger workshop.
 
Good afternoon (barely, just after 12pm here).

Since we have satellite internet, we have hard data limits and times of the day where the internet is faster and others that are slower. I have business internet, so my fast "bonus" time is between 8am and 6pm. I have 25 GB a month that I can use only during that time window. This is the fastest data I have. I have 50 GB of "anytime" data that can be utilized in the early morning, evening, and during my "bonus" time I run out of bonus data. They say my speeds shouldn't be diminished if I have to use my anytime data during my bonus time, but I've noticed it is significantly slower. So I try to conserve that bonus data for work and watch videos and other data hungry things during the off hours.

I tell you all this because my in-laws internet has not be working since Saturday night. Their modem broke. They called yesterday and a tech is coming out on Wednesday to fix it. Well, my MIL is online almost all the time she is awake. It is her pacifier. Well, she wants to use our internet to download podcasts to listen to. Fine, she can do it between 8pm and 6am but NOT while we are sleeping and we aren't getting up at 5am or earlier to let her in. We are also not leaving the back door unlocked because we want to make sure Thing 1 doesn't take it into his head to go for a walk to Mom-mom and Grampy's house while we are sleeping (also, we like our privacy and don't relish the idea of my in-laws coming in while we are sleeping). Well, my husband let her in at 6am this morning and she berated him for not letting her in earlier and keeping the back door locked. She wanted to "pay us" for the data she would use if she downloaded during my "bonus time" which I need for work and I only have 3 GB to use over the next 3 days. It doesn't reset until Thursday at Midnight. She's acting even more like a spoiled toddler than usual. I'm sorry, not having internet sucks. But you'll live and it doesn't constitute an emergency on my part.
 
Redhead Rae said:
Good afternoon (barely, just after 12pm here).

Since we have satellite internet, we have hard data limits and times of the day where the internet is faster and others that are slower. I have business internet, so my fast "bonus" time is between 8am and 6pm. I have 25 GB a month that I can use only during that time window. This is the fastest data I have. I have 50 GB of "anytime" data that can be utilized in the early morning, evening, and during my "bonus" time I run out of bonus data. They say my speeds shouldn't be diminished if I have to use my anytime data during my bonus time, but I've noticed it is significantly slower. So I try to conserve that bonus data for work and watch videos and other data hungry things during the off hours.

I tell you all this because my in-laws internet has not be working since Saturday night. Their modem broke. They called yesterday and a tech is coming out on Wednesday to fix it. Well, my MIL is online almost all the time she is awake. It is her pacifier. Well, she wants to use our internet to download podcasts to listen to. Fine, she can do it between 8pm and 6am but NOT while we are sleeping and we aren't getting up at 5am or earlier to let her in. We are also not leaving the back door unlocked because we want to make sure Thing 1 doesn't take it into his head to go for a walk to Mom-mom and Grampy's house while we are sleeping (also, we like our privacy and don't relish the idea of my in-laws coming in while we are sleeping). Well, my husband let her in at 6am this morning and she berated him for not letting her in earlier and keeping the back door locked. She wanted to "pay us" for the data she would use if she downloaded during my "bonus time" which I need for work and I only have 3 GB to use over the next 3 days. It doesn't reset until Thursday at Midnight. She's acting even more like a spoiled toddler than usual. I'm sorry, not having internet sucks. But you'll live and it doesn't constitute an emergency on my part.
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Also, the house they live in really depends on me keeping my job.
 
Redhead Rae said:
She's acting even more like a spoiled toddler than usual. I'm sorry, not having internet sucks.
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When I retired, I noticed I was getting frustrated at little things like sucky internet. It was hot and I was spending a lot of time on it. I think it's from lack of purpose and escaping into the internet.
 
Molpet said:
When I retired, I noticed I was getting frustrated at little things like sucky internet. It was hot and I was spending a lot of time on it. I think it's from lack of purpose and escaping into the internet.
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This woman has always been escaping in one fashion or another (according to my DH and SIL). Apparently, before internet, it was books, movies, TV shows. Now it is homesteading VLOGs and Fox news shows on YouTube. She stopped driving after she came up here and hasn't been off property since Dec or Jan, not even for church. Half the time when my mom makes dinner and invites us 100 yards down the lane, she won't come (even though we get my parents 4-wheeler and drive her up or take our van). When we lived in the DC metro area, all she talked about is wanting to get to the country. Now that we are out here, she has essentially turned into a hermit who thinks she is the great planning mastermind of all of our lives. Apparently, she's always been that way too. DH and SIL told me that once they and their other sister were old enough to do housework, my MIL stopped doing ANY housework and expected the 3 of them to do it all. I'm all for kids doing chores and helping, but it is a family wide responsibility with parents leading the way and setting an example.

Sorry, venting.

I understand she is probably depressed and isn't in good health, but she does nothing to address those either. However, I'm responsible for myself and my family and there are boundaries that she has to respect.
 
Molpet said:
Definitely, she has to cope. Good for her to have to deal with it.
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Even with all the problems getting the single wide caused for us (we can't get out of our adjustable rate mortgage because conventional mortgage companies can't consider the single wide in the value of the property, so we have to pay down our mortgage amount about 25-30k before we can refinance) it has been a sanity saver to have them (mainly her) in a separate house.
 

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