Do It Yourself Home Projects so Fun (Not)
Between our old furniture falling apart after three years in storage and builders mistakes, each day in our new house brings a challenge. One morning, I opened the closet and the hanging rod broke, burying me under an avalanche of clothes. The next day the drawers collapsed, stripped from the support rail. Meanwhile, Gerald struggled […]
Living in a Construction Site Called Home
We officially moved a month ago, but we keep having to relocate within our walls. We continue to rotate tables, chairs, dishes, books and clothes from place to place, so builders can replace broken fixtures and access faucets covered by dry wall. Instead of looking for Waldo, the cartoon character hidden in a crowd of […]
Calamity House Move with COVID and a Fractured Sacrum
Everyone has a crazy moving house story to share, but can you top this?Changing a domicile, never easy in the best circumstances, becomes an even greater challenge when unforeseen complications arise. Due to an accident, illness and life-coming-at-you, our long awaited relocation became extremely difficult. The first snafu arose when our moving company insisted they […]
Are We Home Yet? House Building Saga
Over the decades, I adjusted to dozens of relocations between three foreign countries. From a cot in a German teammate’s apartment, to a studio flat in Paris, to a rustic chalet in Switzerland, “Where Ever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home.)” Once driven by adventure and dreams of youth, what happened to that gutsy […]
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