Today is my twentieth straight day of blogging. So far, I am honoring my commitment to blog for 100 days straight, though I almost didn’t make it today. The note by my computer reminding me to blog got knocked over (during a wild game of solitaire) and without the reminder, it was too easy to let the day go by.
Not that the day was easy. It wasn’t particularly hard, either, just . . . well, let’s call it a rerun. When I first moved here, much of my stuff was stored in the enclosed porch, but when the workers came to redo the foundation of the porch (there were only two small columns of concrete on either end of the 20-foot room, and since that wasn’t enough to hold up the weight of the house, the porch was rapidly sinking), I had to move all the stuff into the garage. At the time, I thought it was the final move for the camping equipment, tools, and things I wasn’t ready to throw away — there’d been a huge crack down the center of the garage, and the patch seemed to hold. But then came a freeze/thaw cycle, and that was the end of my pretty floor. Now the crack is bigger than ever.
The workers are planning on coming later this week to redo the garage foundation as well as the concrete floor, and so all the stuff had to be moved. I’m hoping by the time I get it all back in the garage, it can stay there.
There are so many bits and pieces to putting together a home, it seems like I am forever moving the pieces around, trying to get it right — and to get my life right. I seem to manage not to do things I should, like exercise, and I seem to manage to do things I shouldn’t — like eat unhealthy things.
I’m sure there are also extraneous pieces that will need to be set aside one day, but that’s not a problem for today.
(I found this quite disturbing piece in a puzzle of featuring a cardinal in a cottonwood. It took me awhile to realize I had it upside down and that it was not part of the bird but a face. It took me even longer to discover that it is part of Chaz Palminteri’s face from a movie puzzle.)
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Pat Bertram is the author of Grief: The Inside Story – A Guide to Surviving the Loss of a Loved One. “Grief: The Inside Story is perfect and that is not hyperbole! It is exactly what folk who are grieving need to read.” –Leesa Healy, RN, GDAS GDAT, Emotional/Mental Health Therapist & Educator.
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October 13, 2019 at 11:45 pm
I’ve been in my home for 1.5 years and am still shuffling everything around! Hope your repair work goes well xxx
October 14, 2019 at 8:34 am
Thank you.
October 14, 2019 at 9:32 am
When I first saw the picture I thought it was an oddly-shaped piece of toasted bread Pat!
October 14, 2019 at 12:02 pm
That’s a fascinating puzzle piece for sure. Considered with your words, it reminds me that our lives are a constant reshuffling as we adapt to all those challenges we never expected to encounter. I guess that’s part of what makes life such an adventure.
October 14, 2019 at 1:21 pm
I wonder if that’s why jigsaw puzzles are so popular — if the puzzle pieces of our lives don’t stop being shuffled long enough to put the whole picture together, at least we can do it vicariously.
October 16, 2019 at 6:47 am
I understand about house issues! It seems like something is coming up all the time. Welcome to the world of a “home owner”!!!!
October 16, 2019 at 8:08 am
One reason I am doing all this is so that worse house issues don’t show up later!