Damelon wrote:Thankfully, most of the to do lists for the house have been completed. I wouldn't recommend the method of getting it done.

I was just thinkin' about how the way of things getting done often is not as satisficatory as we could wish...
sky, vomiting up a lung - or what felt like it... eek, wretched...
murrin- I had almost the same thought; I totally noticed you didn't re-bumpify the 2018 New Year's self-portrait thread.
Noww... a story from the other day...
I was with the kiddoes... and I was searching for a word...
It was from a story of Sorus':
See, one of Sorus' cats was using body language to suggest that her human MIGHT want to get down the laser pointer and operate it, if said human... you know, knows what's best for her.
(Cats as mob bosses... love it....)
Anyway, the littler kid, the 7-year-old, without missing a beat, says, "Capiche?"
I'm like, "yes, that's it!"
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"