Dig Wells in Dry Season

Village wisdom says that if you dig and hit water in dry season, your well will never run dry. Well, today almost got the best of me and I nearly missed the best chance to dig a well for the water of gratefulness. Let it not be so!

I am so grateful that...

•  I have recent memory of better days than this
• We have ample transportation for our many transitions
• During months of stress and duress, we have been nothing but healthy (excepting our diet at times ;)
• We have a three-year-old daughter who, after expressing her sadness about moving so much, kicks up her heels, inviting us along!
• I know a lot of wholesome people
• I am related to a lot of people with real Hope
• I am married to a man who has friends
• I speak the same language as the people who can help me
• Though I may feel so, I am not alone
• I have been loved well
• I can love!
• Seasons come and go
• The sun came up
• I can hear birds
• I can sleep unafraid at night
• And though it can seem like an endless, nebulous process...there is a house being built somewhere, that we hope to live in sometime, and call it our own, and share with others...and there is much beauty surrounding it

And now the day is done... but let this be an artesian well!

After the deer helped themselves to my memorial zinnia sprouts at the land, the other day I found two blooming stalks, smiling in September, in the face of the craziness. A surprise and total gift.

Nobody Knows...

Nobody knows...What it takes to move and set-up and level heavy metal scaffolding time after time- inside, up to 2nd floor, outside, other side, etc etc.

 After windows and doors, the siding began. The color is "Ocean". I love it!

 Nobody knows...how it took a day and a team of 4-5 men to put in and plumb those huge vertical deck beams.

View of South side, looking westerly, down towards the lane on the other side of the house

 Nobody knows...what it took to attach 'ladders' to the roof- wooden extensions for the overhang. PD and Papa M pulled these stunts together in the heat of August.

Stay tuned- I will post a revised picture when I get a copy. this photo makes it look semi-safe...

Nobody knows...what it took to put in this sheet of metal siding. It is, hands down, the biggest 'pain in the butt' section of the whole house, according to the contractor. And it was seamlessly done.

Here is expert work + gritty determination again by JY

Snapshots of Progress I

Here is a patchy catch-up from the past 2 months...

Please come in!

North side of house

And the South Side

Toothless, but grinning!

 We have JY and PY to thank for pro-installation of these doors and windows. It may look like they just fit perfectly...but it was no small feat to wrestle them in and have them framed and swinging perfectly. Hats off to J&PY!