This breathtaking piece of photography has been uploaded here to show you that
things are starting to happen. This is a picture of our very own brand-new furnace, which it was necessary to have installed to begin work on our new addition (the kind of new addition that is built on to the back of our house, not the kind of new addition that needs a name and a crib. We just had one of
that kind of new addition.) So the new furnace wouldn't get lonely down there, we also had a new AC unit and a new tankless hot water system installed. All this new stuff going in has meant that there have bee a lot of
people coming in and out of my house. And, in case you don't know me very well, I don't do too well with
people.
Dealing with
people stresses me out. In the past two weeks I have had to deal with the following people: our general contractor, the architect, the tree-trimming people, the HVAC people, the phone-company people, and people from the boys' orthodontist office (the orthodontist has nothing to do with our addition project; I only mention them because they're also people with whom I've had to deal, and they also want to relieve me of all of my money.) Joe looks like he's had enough of people himself, and has engaged the classic "possum" defense.
When I'm not dealing with any of
those people, I have to deal with my
regular people, like this little person here. Elena here is happily drinking a banana-berry smoothie. Yesterday, she did not get to have a smoothie with the rest of the kids. That's because a few moments after I handed her her
very full smoothie cup, she
dropped the whole thing on the floor. There was smoothie splattered all over the floor and walls of two whole rooms. It was every bit as horrific as you would expect. It's a good thing I was already planning on painting those walls.
Completely unrelated to anything else we have going on is this picture of Mr. Spider. He's worth mentioning only because he has been entertaining us all week. He (or maybe it's a she, I didn't check!) has set up housekeeping right smack in the middle of our big picture window. Several time a day we get to watch some less-fortunate bug get stuck in his web. Mr. Spider the runs out and wraps the bug up real good with spider-webby stuff, to keep it fresh until he's ready to eat it, I guess. Anyway, Mr. Spider seems to be finding plenty to eat, and is happy to be able to provide our family with some entertainment.
This breathtaking piece of photography has been uploaded here to show you that things are starting to happen. This is a picture of our very own brand-new furnace, which it was necessary to have installed to begin work on our new addition (the kind of new addition that is built on to the back of our house, not the kind of new addition that needs a name and a crib. We just had one of that kind of new addition.) So the new furnace wouldn't get lonely down there, we also had a new AC unit and a new tankless hot water system installed. All this new stuff going in has meant that there have bee a lot of people coming in and out of my house. And, in case you don't know me very well, I don't do too well with people.
Dealing with people stresses me out. In the past two weeks I have had to deal with the following people: our general contractor, the architect, the tree-trimming people, the HVAC people, the phone-company people, and people from the boys' orthodontist office (the orthodontist has nothing to do with our addition project; I only mention them because they're also people with whom I've had to deal, and they also want to relieve me of all of my money.) Joe looks like he's had enough of people himself, and has engaged the classic "possum" defense.
When I'm not dealing with any of those people, I have to deal with my regular people, like this little person here. Elena here is happily drinking a banana-berry smoothie. Yesterday, she did not get to have a smoothie with the rest of the kids. That's because a few moments after I handed her her very full smoothie cup, she dropped the whole thing on the floor. There was smoothie splattered all over the floor and walls of two whole rooms. It was every bit as horrific as you would expect. It's a good thing I was already planning on painting those walls.
Completely unrelated to anything else we have going on is this picture of Mr. Spider. He's worth mentioning only because he has been entertaining us all week. He (or maybe it's a she, I didn't check!) has set up housekeeping right smack in the middle of our big picture window. Several time a day we get to watch some less-fortunate bug get stuck in his web. Mr. Spider the runs out and wraps the bug up real good with spider-webby stuff, to keep it fresh until he's ready to eat it, I guess. Anyway, Mr. Spider seems to be finding plenty to eat, and is happy to be able to provide our family with some entertainment.
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