Did You Ever Pick Too Big a Project?

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fureverywhere

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It started out easy. The bookshelves in the upstairs hallway were so dusty the kids were writing in the dust. I tried just dusting at the book spines but then the dust bunnies were getting pushed between books. Okay so I'll empty a level at a time. This was a customized book space. First a long cast off shelf on the bottom. Then two cube shelves on top.

The whole thing is maybe six feet high and eight feet long. Packed with books, I've been donating trunkfuls for the past year. But that's still a LOT off books. It's good because I'm weeding as I go. But at the moment the bed is covered and I'm only on the second level...woooof
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Woof indeed! And sneeze. And sneeze and sneeze and sneeze ....

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I did mine the other day. But my current bookcase is only about 4' tall and maybe 2' wide on a wide day. :)
 
Sure did. Some got completed, like fixing up an apartment, stripping wallpaper, removing old carpeting, painting, scouring wood floors with steel wool. The result was lovely. Needed to recuperate afterwards.

Nowadays, projects get broken up into small doable pieces.
 
I was working on installing some book shelves on the wall. The books were stacked neatly on the floor. A tornado came along and tore part of our roof off. The pouring rain soaked the ceiling and it fell to the floor in pieces. The books got soaked and most wound up as discards. Ruined our whole day. It took two months for them to get the repairs completed. I did get the shelves put up eventually.
 
I do that all the time. Sometimes my project seems innocent enough but escalates into a near impossible task. I just tackled one over the last few days. I wanted to pick up some patio blocks and grow grass in that spot. I had to haul the blocks by my little wagon to our porch,now I had to put them under the porch because I didn't know where else to go with them. The only way to get under there is to crawl. Can't even sit up in places. I pushed and pulled until they were all neatly stacked about 6 high. Now I noticed sand had been placed under where the blocks had been.. Can't grow grass in sand. Had to rake up all the sand, fill buckets and store that for use on another seemingly innocent project I haven't even thought of yet. Now that the sand is up I notice I need soil to fill in,grass seed and fertilizer. I will do that next weekend if it doesn't rain. You would think I would learn.
 
Oh Manatee...that would be so upsetting. I mean the roof is bad enough, but our books are our friends. Just the few times that books have fallen under the dog bed and gotten peed on and I'm ready to have Sophie shipped off for medical experiments.
 
Before bathing your horse, take a minute to count the horse's legs, to measure the density of the mud on each leg, to multiply that by the number of hands in the horse's height, divide by your own height, divide that by your age; then just accept the fact that if you both survive the bath, the horse will go right back out and roll again.
 

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