A lot of things have happened since I last checked in.  We had a hurricane, for one.  It didn’t hit us like it hit the Caribbean islands, but it dumped several feet of rain on us and made a real mess.  The crazy thing about hurricanes is how long we watch them forming and heading toward us, and how quickly they are over and the sky acts like nothing even happened, like it didn’t just try to wipe us all off the face of the earth.   Like why on earth are we all muddy and wet down here?

Another thing is that I got the go-ahead to build my house.  Finallyyyyyy!  I didn’t start yet because, you know, hurricanes.  I don’t think a builder in his right mind would start a house in October at this spot on the planet, anyway.  It would be a muddy mess of wasted time and money. One of these days the clouds will blow away and it will be November, the most beautiful month of the year.  Things with the bank never really did resolve.  Maybe they would have, but maybe they never would have.  Fortunately, we won’t have to find out because I found the money elsewhere.  I say “found” like it’s now mine and I don’t have to pay it back, which is not true.  

After almost 12 calendar months of struggles with the bank, it is taking me a long time to wash all of that worry out of my hair.  I still wake up every morning and my first two thoughts are, “Maybe today will be the day the bank…”  followed by, “Oh yeah!  Screw the bank!”

And then, I have realized that the only hope for this blog is for me to change its style/focus.  Or I just won’t do it anymore.  Which may not be a great loss to humanity, but I have determined that I am not ready for that because the idea makes me very sad.   Scrap trying to write about enlightening and meaningful subjects all the time, and just continue a bit of an on-line diary.  It’s that or nothing.  And I’m so sorry but there might not be lovely and pertinent pictures either.  The only things I have to take pictures of right now are cats, piles of wood, and food.   Which, I will say, are some of my favorite things.