home :: work

The recent days of rain have hampered all exterior home improvement projects.  Our house is a sight to see, and I think the neighbors are starting to get nervous.  The front of the house is festooned with four colors of window trim if you count primer-white.  We're aiming for two colors ultimately, but so far only one has escaped the confines of the paint can and reached its destination.  On the roof we currently have two colors of shingles.  The roofers were driven away mid-project by rains and winds whipping off the lake, leaving this scene on the roof outside our bedroom window:

The pitchfork lies waiting to help rip through the many layers of shingles of the old roof, exposing even more colors.  Red, brown, gray.  As soon as the sky becomes less gray...

And if home-work wasn't crazy-making enough, work-work is finding its way home this week. 

It's actually good to finally knock some of those lingering things off of the to do list while in my jammies, but I'd much rather be knitting while watching the most recent netflix lineup with my sweet.

Oy.  This hasn't been an easy month to challenge myself to reflect on home.  But then again, there hasn't been much more than home stuff going on, so maybe this exercise is just what was needed to keep me from vanishing altogether from the little slice of sanity called cloth.paper.string.

Comments

[emily]

i was thinking the same thing - when i returned from my trip - that it was grounding, in some way, to have the topic of home to return to on the blog, as well as in life. as it should be, i suppose, home as ground. wishing you clear skies and swift exterior work!

[Grace]

love, love this post. i'm loving the slices of coziness that are popping up all over the place. i need to get my own little slice of coziness going here. first i must clean the living room, lol. xo