No comment on Melanie, "I really don't care" but your timing on this is eerie. By the end of summer/fall, I'm so relieved to not have to spend 2 hours a day in the yard. Flower gardens/vegetable gardens, blowing, cutting, trimming all feels like more work! Yesterday, I looked outside at the white frozen yard and actually said "I miss working in our yard" I suppose I could compensate by attending more to the interior, but that's no fun. I'll enjoy the empty time!
I do the same all the time! I go haaard into a creative pursuit - photography, gardening, knitting - whatever. I buy all the equipment and supplies and try to get really good at it. Then I abandon it because its no longer enjoyable. I thought i was the only one who did this!
You've raised a fascinating question for me to think about. It seems to me that it makes sense that our creative pursuits change and evolve as our lives change. And that as we get older, we might want to be a bit more moderate about what we choose to plunge into. I've renovated or built eleven houses and condos in the past dozen years. (And lived in all of them while doing the work, which makes me crazy and also an expert on moving, staging, and buying and selling homes.) I had a lot of fun doing it, got to explore living a bunch of different places within my home range in the Rocky Mountains, and even made enough money to have some savings. The fact that I'm not interested in "re-storying" another home simply says that at 69, my needs and desires have shifted. Also that I have found what may be the perfect house for me for right now!
Wow, Susan! I knew you had moved a few times recently but had no idea it was so many. Having just done it myself a couple of times, I'm impressed by your energy level. I find it exhausting. Congratulations on doing it so successfully and also recognizing when you've had enough.
I didn't intend to re-story that many homes, or move that many times. Each time I fell in love with a neglected place, I said to myself, this is the last one. I'll stay here. And threw myself into fixing up and rewriting and replacing windows and all of that. Only when I was done with each one, I knew it wasn't my place--I had just given it a new story so someone else could fall in love and live there. So I moved on.... My family laughs now when I saw this one is where I'm staying. But I know. :)
I’m sure Melanie knew exactly what she was getting into…. She deserves more credit than you have given her.
Feel free to give her all the credit you want.
No comment on Melanie, "I really don't care" but your timing on this is eerie. By the end of summer/fall, I'm so relieved to not have to spend 2 hours a day in the yard. Flower gardens/vegetable gardens, blowing, cutting, trimming all feels like more work! Yesterday, I looked outside at the white frozen yard and actually said "I miss working in our yard" I suppose I could compensate by attending more to the interior, but that's no fun. I'll enjoy the empty time!
Very smart of you on both points ❣️
I do the same all the time! I go haaard into a creative pursuit - photography, gardening, knitting - whatever. I buy all the equipment and supplies and try to get really good at it. Then I abandon it because its no longer enjoyable. I thought i was the only one who did this!
Ain, I'm pretty sure it's the mark of high intelligence😉
Let's go with that 😀
You've raised a fascinating question for me to think about. It seems to me that it makes sense that our creative pursuits change and evolve as our lives change. And that as we get older, we might want to be a bit more moderate about what we choose to plunge into. I've renovated or built eleven houses and condos in the past dozen years. (And lived in all of them while doing the work, which makes me crazy and also an expert on moving, staging, and buying and selling homes.) I had a lot of fun doing it, got to explore living a bunch of different places within my home range in the Rocky Mountains, and even made enough money to have some savings. The fact that I'm not interested in "re-storying" another home simply says that at 69, my needs and desires have shifted. Also that I have found what may be the perfect house for me for right now!
Wow, Susan! I knew you had moved a few times recently but had no idea it was so many. Having just done it myself a couple of times, I'm impressed by your energy level. I find it exhausting. Congratulations on doing it so successfully and also recognizing when you've had enough.
I didn't intend to re-story that many homes, or move that many times. Each time I fell in love with a neglected place, I said to myself, this is the last one. I'll stay here. And threw myself into fixing up and rewriting and replacing windows and all of that. Only when I was done with each one, I knew it wasn't my place--I had just given it a new story so someone else could fall in love and live there. So I moved on.... My family laughs now when I saw this one is where I'm staying. But I know. :)
I believe you❤️