The speed of life

I’m sure by now many of you have wondered if I’ve fallen off the face of the virtual earth.  I haven’t.

Sometimes 24 hours is just not enough to accomplish all the things that need to be done in a day.  Such has been the case for most of 2009 in our family.  

Our daughter is getting married in the summer causing a combination of delight and panic as we get excited about the upcoming celebrations, but at the same time are totally worn out trying to get the house – inside and out – prepared for the arrival of visitors.  

The basement renovations are still underway.  I’d gladly welcome Mike Holmes with a cup of Nescafe right now if he’d care to take over this daunting task.  We’re almost finished, but questionable skills and busy schedules have meant that we’ve progressed far more slowly than we’d hoped.  Hopefully just another round of mudding; another round or two of sanding; some primer, paint, baseboards and flooring and we’re laughing.  Sounds easy if you say it quickly, doesn’t it?

My flower gardens, things of great beauty when they’re all weeded, cultivated, and flowering, still require weeding and cultivating, hopefully before they flower.  The largest of the gardens are mirror image perennial gardens, each measuring about 40′ long by, at their widest points, about 15′ wide.  And now, the heat of the summer seems to have arrived.  The weeds are growing by inches daily.  Last fall when the gardens normally would have been cleaned out, we were busy with the basement renovations, then I got a virus with vertigo, then it snowed, and most of the spring the area where the gardens are in the back corner of the property has been rather boggy, making it difficult to work on them without being sucked into the mud as if it was quicksand!  So, here we are at the end of May still trying to whip those into shape.

I don’t know where the time has gone!  Before we know it, the wedding will be history, the basement and the gardens will be done (hopefully!) and we’ll look back on all of it and wonder why we felt so rushed, but until then…