Wednesday, July 23, 2014

done and done


I am terrible about responding to comments. When I do respond, it is via email so unless you make an email address available, I can't respond to your comment. I guess the reason I do it that way is that I rarely go back to a post to see if the blogger has responded (there are a few exceptions). Shoot, I can't even keep track of what I comment on or much less remember to go back and check for responses.

So this is in response to all the wonderful comments and questions I have received about this very long drawn out move, this uprooting literally, from my old life.

As Marc says, we have decamped.

I have dug up so many plants or taken cuttings. I have no idea how much is going to survive, which cuttings will root. I'm still trying to get them in pots temporarily till the weather cools enough to not give me heat stroke while I prepare the ground for planting.

We decided to leave the sandblast booth/Tuff Shed after all as it has termites. Not bringing termites to the new shop.

I didn't take anything from the house itself besides memories. Just the chandelier. How do you do that anyway? I would like one of the diamond paned windows if Kevin decides to deconstruct the house. We'll see.


So yes, I'm OK. I walked through the house, my last time, and touched the walls and thanked it for giving us shelter and holding our family together. We weathered three direct hits from hurricanes over the years in that house with nary a creak. I apologized for not taking better care of it and for abandoning it. I told it I loved it.

Then I walked out and closed the door.

Mostly, I think, I am just glad that it is finally over. I am anxious to get the new shop set up. I don't like not having a shop or work space available to me. I have stuff to do and stuff to make! There are three exhibitions coming up that I want to submit work for. I have agreed to be in a gallery show next year and I need stuff for that. And the open house in December, which I assume will be happening.

Our future is here and before us.




15 comments:

  1. Bet you drive past a few times over the years

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  2. Yes, goodbye, good house, well done. But that window would like to hang in a new house.

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  3. i hate saying goodbye - to places as much as people and animals. but when it is time to move on, it just is.

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  4. I've never lived anywhere as long as you were in that house (well, except for the house I grew up in, but wait that was really only 14 years...), but every time we move I reach that same state - thanks to the old place, on to the new place.

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  5. I bet she creaked a smile. Houses always know when we love them, even if we don't show it all the time.

    Hope your new shop/place is up and running soon.

    And may all the green babies survive the move!

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  6. Honor the past, move on to the future. I just admire your attitude so very, very much.

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  7. You and Marc got it figured out, but here's a reminder: Everything will work out fine.

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  8. I'm glad you're finally finished. On to the future! Those are great windows -- perhaps Kevin can sell them to an architectural salvage place? (Aside from the one you take, if possible!)

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  9. I'll raise my glass to your fabulous attitude and to moving on. (clink) Here's to the future.

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  10. and in the end...it is just stuff. I tell that to myself everyday. So pleased about your your future- REALLY. I can so empathize with the leaving part. I still am visited by my childhood house in dreams, small on the outside and endless on the inside- room after room opening and opening , I am sure that that is a great metaphor for ...something and it does reoccur frequently. Bon Chance avec votre bright future (practicing lousy French for my bright future...)well done, YOU! Glad that you have a work space right next door to your cup of tea.

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  11. New beginnings are awaiting! And with all the prospects you have lined up, it's about time you had more space. Best of everything.

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  12. sometimes a "new" beginning is just the medicine for a lot of pains... reckon?

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  13. My very best good wishes go with you.

    May it all work out to your entire satisfaction and may you be as happy in the new house as you were in the old.

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  14. "Our future is here and before us." Love that. This is a lovely post, really. All the well wishes are wonderful, too. Closing one chapter and starting another. I know what you mean about a house that takes care of you ~ we feel that way about the house my daughter is trying to sell now. In our case we say thank you and hope that another family finds it so they can know that feeling, too.

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