I'm Still Trying

I'm just about bonkers.... I just tried the next question you know the 12 tpi and I've got a lovely 10 tpi! Ok... so I quit for a little while. It has become too stressful to continue on these stupid questions. I think I deserve a break after fours days and really struggling to get these questions done. Next weekend is the retreat the big annual dyeing retreat and so I have decided to spin some nice relaxing BFL so that I can work on my dye samples for the level 4 homework.

I have to be honest, I'm really looking forward to the retreat.... the last week has been ...difficult, so a bit of relaxation is well overdue. Teapot and I have bought the Daughters kayaks and we are supposed to be heading off to a nearby lake for a couple of weeks of pleasure and teaching the girls the rudiments of kayaking. We will take our old tent trailer, which is one step above tenting but only barely, and our canoe and the two kayaks. But first Teapot is heading off to Cochrane for the annual camp for JCRs. He is leaving on Monday and is gone for eleven days. He is looking forward to it. Eleven whole days where I am not nagging at him about finishing some of the work that needs to be done. We .... well I should say I, really wanted to get the new roof on the electrical shed.... the metal has been sitting there since last summer and I really wanted the downstairs bathroom finished but more and more I'm starting to realize that if I want these things done I will have to hire someone. Teapot just does not have the time or the inclination (particularly the inclination) to do any of that kind of work.

Quite a few things on the house renovation never got finished last year and it is looking more and more like it will be another year before any of it gets finished. Very aggravating actually.
Here are a few of the things that I was hoping to see finished this year....

1. new tin roof on electrical shed.
2. new tub (from last year) in downstairs bathroom finally working
3. steps to the deck moved into place and set in concrete
4. painting of the deck and veranda finished
5. Daughter #1's room have the last tiny piece of wall board put up
6. Daughter #2's room clear coated.
7. The sun room exterior siding put on
8. some of the electrical work finalized (so we don't get electrocuted)

These were the main things but there are other jobs, like the wall paneling in all rooms, the kitchen pantry finished, the flooring in the living room, (because we are still living on plywood floors). Not to mention the new venting for the downstairs bathroom because it has become a problem to flush the toilet and we think it is due to inadequate venting.

So not only am I still trying to do my skeins of yarn, I'm still trying to coax Teapot to finish the pile of work that there is around here.

I guess I'll keep trying.....