Been a couple of weeks so not a ton of catch up.
I spent part of my afternoon Sunday pushing an area of brush and some trash from the last owners shed (hence not crawling in and cutting the brush down) into a nice big burn pile.
Most likely this pile will be lit up Thanksgiving weekend as I will be at work Thanksgiving day. I scraped up another two piles as well but didn't think to photograph them.
Once the brush has been burnt I can begin cleaning a bit more around the sections of the shop that get taken down for rebuild. Basically I am prepping for the spring construction season...more concrete and repeat the building I have done before. Once the shell is up I can finish setting up the inside and the shop goes on line. If things go to plan (we all know how that goes) I should start remodeling the main bathroom this time next year or spring of 28.
The roof leak is fixed!
Work is still going good :-) I have almost found the shop/my office, and I am at the point where random coworkers when they find me in there comment on how much better it looks :-) I have no idea why we have 56 toilet flappers stocked but I surmise the original Maintenance Director must have had a high pressure sales rep. The one thing I know for sure is I had to unpack all of them to get them to store properly as they all had retail packaging intended to hang on a hook.
Seasonal/holiday issues have creeped into my head a bit early this year for some reason. I have adjusted to living alone, I adjusted to having my son around, but there are ways a companion would be nice. As I have mentioned in a post elsewhere I wonder if someone is interested, but that is a bridge yet to be crossed and she would have to initiate--yes I am still very afraid of getting burned again the way I have before.
I have returned to working on a BIG story that has sat in limbo for several years. The story is large enough I have an in system encyclopedia and a language dictionary to English for the work. Currently it is 230ish pages long on its own and I know I am maybe a quarter of the way to done and that is not eve counting major side character's back stories! Add in that this story also overlaps some old short stories, and three other novels, so these are essentially one story that intertwines passing through each other...can you see where that encyclopedia comes in?
For now I think that is it, might share a short story that is part of a character's back story next week--see how it flies.
Maura Out
