They dug the trenches for the foundation of the shed today. Hopefully they’ll put the forms in tomorrow while Steve and Joe drive down to Bernalillo to get our building permits. Keep your fingers crossed for us on that one!
If all goes well and we get the permits and the building inspector okays it, we can start pouring concrete and order the shed. I will keep you posted.
What’s going on in your life?
Hope you get the permits.
Things with me are the usual mix.
Post op recovery sans my brother, sister in law and sister who have gone back, now that I am reasonably independent.
I think it interesting that I’ve always liked to use sans (French for without; it’s shorter). You do that and you live on the other side of the world. Amazing 😀
congratulations on the move forward to rebuilding…
in my life right now: still sifting/sorting up a house full of life time of gathering items. I now have a different attitude to some of it “what is this? why am I keeping it? If I’m going to use it when? why? etc…”
I have not particularly reached the yarn storage yet and that is is an entirely different matter. When I have sifted everything else I will make more decisions on that. What I do with the stuff to be gone is list it for sale, but if it doesn’t sell it goes down to the local “goodwill” shop – I have around 5 different ones to chose from around here so I share the stuff, eh 🙂
I did however, make a decision to do some private study – furthering my education, with an emphasis on China. At this point in time, I’m looking at the outcast community in late Imperial China – with a notion to see what happened to that class of people in the Cultural Revolution – through to possibly now…answers will not be known for sometime – but it keeps my mental head occupied 🙂
Life is relatively good…:-)
I wish I had your ambition for keeping your “mental head occupied”. My mental head is lazy. Tom is my mental head.
bhb: your mental head is probably been busy for a lot longer than mine over the years – so you can graciously retire and do other sorts of things – surfing the net & finding intriguing things for your personal e-list friends, which includes me 🙂
Evan,
Thank you.
Rummuser,
I’m glad you’re recovering, even if it is slow. Do you miss your company/help?
Cathy,
Good luck on your decluttering. That’s a big job. I’m like you I love learning new things. I also prefer independent study so I can immerse myself in things that interest me. Do you miss the university at all?
bikehikebabe,
I agree with Cathy! I appreciate your e-mails.
“Rummuser, I’m glad you’re recovering, even if it is slow.”
Jean, what do you mean SLOW? Two months is like lightning. Remember “Time flies.”
bikehikebabe,
If time is flying it sounds as if you’re having fun. 🙂
yes I do miss University and all that it entails…but the private study is being undertaken at their libraries. I spend one day a week there, not for a long day but I’m slowly building up my reading/staying power.
something though is very different for me there…when I was there I had access to a private room/space within the main library. Now I’m out there with everyone else and I find it better…I feel less trapped (hard to explain)
I do have a slight hankering to be back there, because I would have a kind of programme to follow but as soon as I decide which area I will tackle for say 3/6months then it might be more structured…
Something else occurred which was interesting, the realisation that within any period/class there was so much more to ‘study’ to which there was no time…
Cathy,
I can imagine that studying where there are other people would seem friendlier and less isolated than being in a room by yourself. I went back to college to refresh my computer skills after I had stayed home with Kaitlin for 10 years. But I took only one official class plus an independent study project each semester. That gave me the time to go as deeply into subjects as I wanted. I loved it!
“Miss” is an understatement. After many years, the four of us were able to sit together for hours and just reminisce and now I am left to my own devices. It is also unsettling not to be the center of attraction!
Rummuser,
It sounds as if you might have another reunion soon. I hope so, and that you’ve fully recovered by then.