This has been a shitty blog, I admit. In my own defense, let’s just say it’s also been a pretty shitty time. Trying to get this house to “liveable” – while dealing with “life” and its day-to-day challenges (illness, travel, work, school, budgetary constraints, WINTER) has been a challenge. As big a part as this house is and has been in our lives in the past almost-year, sometimes it’s had to take a back-seat to other priorities. It’s not that things haven’t been “happening” around here…they have. It’s just that “house happenings” have taken on more of an on-going background roll than an up-front one. That’s good, I guess…it means we’ve been able to LIVE here…not like we’ve had a choice.
I am generally partial to chronological updates on such subjects but – like life – things don’t always turn out as planned. It took meeting a new friend (an avid blogger and writer), Mary Anne Mohanraj, to inspire me to believe that I should not abandon this project (the blog). PLUS…this is, and always will be, a work in progress. There will ALWAYS be something to share about what’s happening here.
What I’ve also realized is that I probably mis-named this blog. I was WAY too idealistic in the focus of this project at the outset…concentrating only on a fraction of what was happening – and what WOULD happen – with the project that is this house. In retrospect this blog probably should have been called…oh, I don’t know…”The Money Pit”? “How NOT to approach your retrofit”? “Yet ANOTHER life lesson”?
Sorry…I’m feeling a little bitter about things. BUT…spring has sprung, so “hopeful” is starting to overtake the bitterness. Perhaps I will see if I can’t re-name this documentation project to more accurately express the scope of things. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as is all feedback.
I will do my best to back-track and update what's been happening. I've amassed a TON of pictures and - as pictures do - they all have a story. I just have to find it in me to re-hash this mess we've been going through.
Please bear with me.
