Summer 2010

Is it ridiculous to do an end of summer review on October 22? Probably, but for this summer it seems perfectly normal. I have always felt that each summer of our lives defines itself with its own special memory. It was the summer we played softball every night, or the summer we went to Yellowstone, or the summer Freddy fell down the well and we had to fish him out.
This summer is unequivocally and unarguably the summer of Zoey. It started with her, ended with her, and probably a day did not pass without her in our thoughts. This was her first summer and her existence is all that mattered. Subsequent summers will be the summer Zoey ------- whatevered, but this summer was the summer of Zoey.
As to the rest of the summer was it pass or fail?? Really hard to judge.
I make a list every Spring that includes must do’s, should do’s and nice to do’s. By Labor day, I usually have completed everything on the list and can relax until the Fall/Winter list is completed. This year’s list had four big must do’s. Finish the Hall entrance upstairs and down, reorganize the garage, rebuild the back porch steps and paint the front porch. Since we have only one car in a two car garage, it seemed silly not to redo the second stall for better storage. Also, if Sweet Z was spending time here, let’s move the horrible smelling stains and finishes outdoors. Completed this is June and it has been a great help.
As to the hall. Here is the wonderful fun. If you look around your house at your furniture, you will realize that almost everything is a box. Sure it is dressed up to look pretty and it has cute little attributes, but basically it is a box. It is even called case work. (fancy name for a ---box) Almost everything I have built in the last few years has been a box. The hall was not a box. It was all new and fresh and fun. It also took forever. There were a zillion small little cuts that were all interdependent and ( given our home) odd. But, as of October 22, it is done and I must say it looks, very nice. Except for the parts not done yet, but we are not going to mention any of them.
Everything else on my to do list, will head next years to do list. And here is the funny thing. As hard as it is to believe, I did not put a check mark next to every single thing on my list, and the sun still came up, the squirrels are still storing nuts and the cat has not cared in the least. Imagine, it really didn’t matter.