Cetawin
Rest in Peace 1963-2021
So, we packed up and left Southern Oregon on the 28th of March with 2 dogs, 11 ducks and 19 chickens.....a 43 hour drive lasted 7 days!
The bird were packed up last in the 26' U-Haul with battery operated fans, plenty of food and water and stop every 3.5 - 4 hours to check them. My 17" king sized mattress was shrink wrapped and put on top of them to keep the crates from shifting along with tie downs being used.
The chickens were in double decker coops and the ducks in large dog crates. Everyone survived the trip well even two snow storms, ice, sleet, a white out and rain. We arrived and were all exhausted.
We arrived to the house being in a condition much less than we expected, painting and carpet replacing is in the immediate future along with securing the birds' areas in the huge barn. We also had a meeting on day 1 with our new neighbor to the left...whose flock was free ranging and roaming all over our place...not good.
So where to start...night 1 about 80 miles into our journey we blew a tire on the trailer carrying our van....waited several hours and got that replaced and 2 miles down the road...it blew again. So, it was time for a hotel. Next day we managed to get a new trailer, off loaded tons of stuff into another u-haul...the 10' that I would drive. So much for taking pictures and enjoying switch driving with husband.
We make it through the Columbia Gorge and into Idaho with little issue aside from being tired...we are now late into day 3 so we stop for a few hours of sleep and a hot shower. Then we hit Utah and drive right into a nice blowing snowstorm and I lose the driver's side windshield wiper which causes us to stay the night there....
We get back on the road and start making our way from Salt Lake City to Wyoming...and get to Laramie and are about to hit I-80 for Cheyenne and get stuck in traffic backed up for nearly 2 miles...why? Well they have closed all the roads for the impending severe snow storm coming....so...back to a hotel we go. Then open eastbound I-80 in the morning so we hit the road in the storm rather than risk being stuck in Wyoming another day...it snowed all the way to central Nebraska
So, finally almost exactly 7 days later as the sun is setting we arrive to our new home, chickens running around everywhere, my mother-in-law, brother-in-law and daughter already here....we walk in and are nearly shocked into oblivion by the most gawd awful yellow kitchen and diningroom and my daughter saying "Mom, don't sweat it, it is not ALL this loud".
So, I start making my way through the rest of the house and by the time I finished I was about in tears from exhaustion, shock and disgust. Every room was a different hideous color with hideous wallpaper borders.
So now the house tour....
Going down the stairs to the basement to what will be my husband's MAN CAVE I see lovely green and pink walls with rose borders
I admit....I now started to giggle because my husband insisted that the basement would be HIS MAN CAVE!
And here it is pink and green.
I go back upstairs and start up the stairs away from the yellow kitchen to check out the 3 bedrooms...I should have stayed downstairs and never ventured up there. The hall bath was not bad...nice neutral walls...great...the carpet is disgusting in the hallway but hey...easy fix then I come to bedroom 1 ... to be my daughters room and open the door and OMG at the blue...the icky colored blue room with hall matching nasty beige carpet
I took a deep breath and backed out closing the door behind me and proceeded with great caution to the 2nd bedroom and slowly opened the door to be overwhelmed with hideousness (is that a word? if not it should be).... purple not even nice lavender walls with a bunny rabbit border that is not level with the ceiling either...and BLUE carpet....OMG
I just stood there starring at will be my craft room and the guest room and thinking...."Okay this has got to be the last of the hideousness" and I proceed to the master bedroom.
I open the door holding my breath and quickly open my eyes to the horrid green blue wants to be green walls with yellow nicotine stains running down them and a pink and lavender rose print wallpaper border and pink carpet.
I was doing my best not to lose it at this point as I walked towards the master bath to find a pink highlighted lineoleum floor with .... you guessed it a wallpaper border. That has teddy bears on it, it is peeling away and looks like HELLLO because obviously the previous occupants did not know what a bathroom fan was used for.
We fought with our king size mattress for an hour up stairs and around corner and got it into the room, I cleaned the tubs and showers TWICE and then took a shower and decided to sleep and see the rest in the morning....so I ripped the shrink wrap off the top of the mattress, put sheets on it and collapsed into my fit of tears.
Today, one week after moving in, I took pictures of the barn, yard and pasture. The original owners had chickens and have areas prepared for them in the barn....after looking at them, I can see why most of them were eaten by predators...so the owner I am getting the house from had all the dirt removed and new dirt brought in and has limed it so I am bleached the barn walls and everything and starting from there....much work to do but it is workable...so here are pics of the good stuff....
our pasture
from pasture to the house
flower bed
front small pond area
sideyard area
backyard area
garden area
orchard area
barn
chicken area 1
chicken area 2
chicken area 3
roost area in chicken area 2
nestbox area in chickien area 2
brooder
small cage and nest
run area off side of barn
The areas are 12 x 12 stalls basically. The stalls are not finished out but there are 9 total in the barn and a 12 x 12 tack room... so the barn is about 36' - 40' wide and about 60' long in a tobacco style so, it will need some hardwire cloth and reinforcing against diggers plus wind breaks to stops drafts between the boards. But, we are in our new home and facing a lot of work but it will be good to dig in and start....just a little at a time...first is the bird area and repainting the kitchen and diningroom....the yellow must GO or at least be toned down by 20 shades.
So we are here and I will post progress pics here as we go...wish us luck...prayers will help too.
PS- all the junk in the barn was left here by previous folks...just so you know we did not move junk with us.
The bird were packed up last in the 26' U-Haul with battery operated fans, plenty of food and water and stop every 3.5 - 4 hours to check them. My 17" king sized mattress was shrink wrapped and put on top of them to keep the crates from shifting along with tie downs being used.
The chickens were in double decker coops and the ducks in large dog crates. Everyone survived the trip well even two snow storms, ice, sleet, a white out and rain. We arrived and were all exhausted.
We arrived to the house being in a condition much less than we expected, painting and carpet replacing is in the immediate future along with securing the birds' areas in the huge barn. We also had a meeting on day 1 with our new neighbor to the left...whose flock was free ranging and roaming all over our place...not good.
So where to start...night 1 about 80 miles into our journey we blew a tire on the trailer carrying our van....waited several hours and got that replaced and 2 miles down the road...it blew again. So, it was time for a hotel. Next day we managed to get a new trailer, off loaded tons of stuff into another u-haul...the 10' that I would drive. So much for taking pictures and enjoying switch driving with husband.
We make it through the Columbia Gorge and into Idaho with little issue aside from being tired...we are now late into day 3 so we stop for a few hours of sleep and a hot shower. Then we hit Utah and drive right into a nice blowing snowstorm and I lose the driver's side windshield wiper which causes us to stay the night there....
We get back on the road and start making our way from Salt Lake City to Wyoming...and get to Laramie and are about to hit I-80 for Cheyenne and get stuck in traffic backed up for nearly 2 miles...why? Well they have closed all the roads for the impending severe snow storm coming....so...back to a hotel we go. Then open eastbound I-80 in the morning so we hit the road in the storm rather than risk being stuck in Wyoming another day...it snowed all the way to central Nebraska
So, finally almost exactly 7 days later as the sun is setting we arrive to our new home, chickens running around everywhere, my mother-in-law, brother-in-law and daughter already here....we walk in and are nearly shocked into oblivion by the most gawd awful yellow kitchen and diningroom and my daughter saying "Mom, don't sweat it, it is not ALL this loud".
So, I start making my way through the rest of the house and by the time I finished I was about in tears from exhaustion, shock and disgust. Every room was a different hideous color with hideous wallpaper borders.
So now the house tour....
Going down the stairs to the basement to what will be my husband's MAN CAVE I see lovely green and pink walls with rose borders
I admit....I now started to giggle because my husband insisted that the basement would be HIS MAN CAVE!
I go back upstairs and start up the stairs away from the yellow kitchen to check out the 3 bedrooms...I should have stayed downstairs and never ventured up there. The hall bath was not bad...nice neutral walls...great...the carpet is disgusting in the hallway but hey...easy fix then I come to bedroom 1 ... to be my daughters room and open the door and OMG at the blue...the icky colored blue room with hall matching nasty beige carpet
I took a deep breath and backed out closing the door behind me and proceeded with great caution to the 2nd bedroom and slowly opened the door to be overwhelmed with hideousness (is that a word? if not it should be).... purple not even nice lavender walls with a bunny rabbit border that is not level with the ceiling either...and BLUE carpet....OMG
I just stood there starring at will be my craft room and the guest room and thinking...."Okay this has got to be the last of the hideousness" and I proceed to the master bedroom.
I open the door holding my breath and quickly open my eyes to the horrid green blue wants to be green walls with yellow nicotine stains running down them and a pink and lavender rose print wallpaper border and pink carpet.
I was doing my best not to lose it at this point as I walked towards the master bath to find a pink highlighted lineoleum floor with .... you guessed it a wallpaper border. That has teddy bears on it, it is peeling away and looks like HELLLO because obviously the previous occupants did not know what a bathroom fan was used for.
We fought with our king size mattress for an hour up stairs and around corner and got it into the room, I cleaned the tubs and showers TWICE and then took a shower and decided to sleep and see the rest in the morning....so I ripped the shrink wrap off the top of the mattress, put sheets on it and collapsed into my fit of tears.
Today, one week after moving in, I took pictures of the barn, yard and pasture. The original owners had chickens and have areas prepared for them in the barn....after looking at them, I can see why most of them were eaten by predators...so the owner I am getting the house from had all the dirt removed and new dirt brought in and has limed it so I am bleached the barn walls and everything and starting from there....much work to do but it is workable...so here are pics of the good stuff....
our pasture
from pasture to the house
flower bed
front small pond area
sideyard area
backyard area
garden area
orchard area
barn
chicken area 1
chicken area 2
chicken area 3
roost area in chicken area 2
nestbox area in chickien area 2
brooder
small cage and nest
run area off side of barn
The areas are 12 x 12 stalls basically. The stalls are not finished out but there are 9 total in the barn and a 12 x 12 tack room... so the barn is about 36' - 40' wide and about 60' long in a tobacco style so, it will need some hardwire cloth and reinforcing against diggers plus wind breaks to stops drafts between the boards. But, we are in our new home and facing a lot of work but it will be good to dig in and start....just a little at a time...first is the bird area and repainting the kitchen and diningroom....the yellow must GO or at least be toned down by 20 shades.
So we are here and I will post progress pics here as we go...wish us luck...prayers will help too.
PS- all the junk in the barn was left here by previous folks...just so you know we did not move junk with us.
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And, how did you end up buying a place without seeing it (or at least pictures) first?
