One Trip After Another

Today was a trip to town for a new suitcase. The suitcase that I always carried my spinning wheel in died shortly after Easter and all spring I have been thinking about a new one. I finally bit the bullet and went to town to get one. It is large and lined and I think better than the original one that I had. So I am pleased that that is one job down.

I look around me these days and I see nothing but jobs in every direction. The flooring in the house is almost finished. The sun room was finished before this whole fiasco.... but since then the dining room has been finished and the kitchen is about three quarters of the way done. So I am hopeful that it will be complete when I get back... I am also hopeful that the addition will have it's new siding on it. These are the two biggest jobs. The rest is stuff that will require little effort and only minor expense. It seems ludicrous to me that for four years I begged and pleaded to have this place finished and it wasn't done time and again and all of a sudden when things are falling apart the house is at its best and is finally looking like something that I would want to live in... some how it doesn't seem fair... but then fairness never really plays into life.

Tomorrow I leave for Olds and while normally I am looking forward to it... this time I am not sure how I will get through. A week of testing.... that in and of itself is daunting. Then I will be with friends who will be smiling and taking pleasure in their surroundings and I will be smiling on the outside but on the inside...... well it does no good to dwell on it. It just makes it more difficult.

I will try to write here sometimes while I am away. This has become a bit of an oasis... a place where I know people follow because they care. Thank you to all....