I reread my last post and thought maybe I would delete it but it’s what I felt at the time so it stays.

I added a back porch. It’s done. It’s good. It feels very private. I bought a gas griddle to cook on outside. Marage will deliver it sometime next week. There’s a bench seat and chair that I ordered as well. I like the plastic Adirondack chairs but they need padding and some people need something more substantial. It will come together.

The house is definitely cooler than it was before the roof insulation was added along with the porch. The sun doesn’t beat down on the back of the house in the afternoon. I noticed that at times the interior of the house is cooler than out on the porch. Down the road I will add the two bedroom air conditioners.

The back screen door has taken a beating from the dogs. The wire mesh was rusted and broken, the door scratched and the screening was coming off. I took it off the hinges and am refinishing it. It’s beginning to look much improved. Later this afternoon I’ll stain the other side and tomorrow I can attach the screening and wire mesh support.

There was so much that I had saved up to tell you and now I think some of it has slipped away.

Before I leave to visit the States in October I plan to have the interior of the house done being repainted. I had Naomi do the outside. It’s still blue, maybe a tad more grey in the color. The porches are both painted white. For the first time in forever, since you died, the place looks respectable. And still there’s so much to be done. The fence needs painted, the shed and chicken coop as well. When I return at the end of October I’m going to build a screened enclosure, maybe a hoop house, for a garden. I still struggle keeping the weeds at bay in the yard.

I’m trying to keep busy. I never had the t.v. hooked back up yet after the satellite dishes were removed from the roof. Sometimes I want it back but I’ve been better off without it, less likely to sit for mind numbing hours in front of it. If I get things painted and generally done I don’t know what I shall do to keep busy.

Wish you were here.

Wish you were here.

Wish you were here.