Home again

Sort of ad-hock but ended up moving home on the weekend.  Built Tessa a temporary pen so she'll give the new lawn a chance to knit before adding her special touches. Gradually (mostly Shannon's doing) stuff from our other home finding its way back.  She is also busy cleaning her way out of that place leaving it better than we found it - least we can do since they wouldn't accept any rent.  Amazing how where your 'stuff' is roots you to a place, and it was a nice place, a refuge from the mess that "105" had become and truly a home for the three of us plus our 'adopted son' Brandon and all the drop in riff-raff that helped to take our minds off things in the evenings.  There is still a pile of stuff to do to make "105" home again but each day we make a little progress.  Spent the weekend working on the garage which won't become a workshop again right way - going to get it in shape for storage of things that would otherwise be in the basement etc so it is out of the way for construction. Fix the electrical, insulation, vapour barrier, sheathing with OSB.  Single handedly did the vapour barrier and acoustical sealant without becoming the tar-baby:  I'll call that a win. 

Took Tessa for a walk thru George Lane Park the other night and back thru the downtown core.  The park is closed for safety reasons - pathways missing, fences and trees down, and most of it still covered in debris and silt.  Pretty sobering.  Downtown has some life but the majority of businesses still either boarded up during repairs or surrounded by construction fences.  Handmade signs augment store signage stressing "We're OPEN, come on in!"  but really, most of it looks like a construction site.

Work plows on, the time of year I can usually take a breath - but not this year.  On top of everything else its busy and the crews are nipping at my heels wanting projects to run to.  Yes, yes, coming right up!  A list at my elbow grows of things deferred ... no shortage of winter projects this year either.