Construction Zone!

“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”

~ William Feather

For the better part of the last 2 weeks, our house has been a construction zone.

Actually it feels more like a war zone.

Other than the bedrooms and bathroom, the rest of the house has, for the most part, become uninhabitable.

We had no kitchen at all last week.

The family room ,which is where my office was, is completely torn apart.

The entire back end of the house is without electricity.

As I write this, I am sitting here waiting for the building inspector.

Once he gives his bureaucratic blessing, we can begin the process of rebuilding enroute to being able to live a "normal" life sometime soon.

I'm not complaining, just explaining.

Truth be told, since we put the addition on almost 30 years ago, I have been saying "someday I would love to.....".

After the hot water heater broke ruining the floors, someday felt more like NOW.

What's that expression ?

If not now when, and if not for me then for who?

at times I question the necessity to doing this?

It's a lot more work than I anticipated.

The costs, and I am not just talking dollars and cents, has been far greater than I imagined.

Certainly the END is nowhere in sight.

This will be a process.

Still, I can't help but to come back to how many times I said SOMEDAY.

Ultimately I made the decision that the time was now.

Speaking of which,during the last week, I had an anniversary of another if not now when decision in my life.

Last Thursday marked 6 years to the day ,June 13th,2013, that I began this part of my Journey.

It is 2195 days since I sent out the first of these daily emails.

I really wanted to write to you last week,however with the house torn up, no office, no computer,no internet, no WIFI, and lots and lots of dust and debris,that never happened.

Fortunately ,by last Friday we were able to recapture temporarily, use of the kitchen.

I have also been able to carve out a small workspace for the time being,set up my computer ,which is how I have created the opportunity to write today.

There will probably be one more brief shut down period(possibly two) before we turn the corner to putting things back in place

6 years!

Wow....that seems like a long time.

Yet somehow it also seems like it was just yesterday.

Funny how that happens!

See you tomorrow!