We are at one of those bad stages of unpacking, where you feel like you’ve been working on it forever and you still are barely halfway done, if that. There are nice moments, like finding the framed wedding pictures that have been in boxes with useless labels like, “living room,” for 2 years. But mostly it is exhausting.
Partly as a result of working on the inside of the house, I’ve been almost completely ignoring the jungle yard. My biggest accomplishment over the summer was to clear a 5′ wide path through the raised beds, to the raspberries. My ignoring the yard means that my cleared 25 square feet or so is now 4′ tall weeds. And without the promise of raspberries, I’m finding it harder and harder to get motivated.
We also got back an estimate for the massive insulation project that was recommended by the home energy auditor. It came in a few dollars short of $10,000. Ha! Sure. We’d love to. Right after winning the lottery. Do you have a cellulose blower I can borrow? How hard can it be?
At least the roof and the paint look fabulous. And the alarm system doesn’t annoy me as much as I worried that it would.
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