Saturday, April 22, 2017

On Home Improvement

This afternoon, we finished our fire pit.  We started last summer and had everything in place by winter except for the fire ring itself.  The weather has been nice for some time, but today, I started assembling the metal ring and ended up assembling everything that was left.  It was a big win, which is great, because we have so many other open projects. 

I told Emily today about how I still need to insulate the garage, and she replied that she heard insulation was easy to do.  "It is," I said.  "So why don't you just do it?"  I made a pained expression as I answered "Because I have 50 other easy things to do, and it's so hard!" 

With home improvement, it is especially easy to put things off because it's almost never something you've gotten good at.  On the other hand, it's also almost never something that's critical to get done right.  So the best thing to do is pick something and get started.  Before long, there will be another box checked in the to-do list.


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