I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. Paula Cole

MORNING PLEASURE: It may be just a little thing, but the addition of the windows in our new ‘basement’ was an unexpected pleasure this morning. Why? Because they are the start of making this side of our house look finished. Yes, they still need to be framed out and yes the trim board will need to be adjusted and the water leader lowered to the ground.

And I guess I can’t ignore the giant excavator still parked in my front yard. I said it was a little thing.

Inside our ‘basement’ (technically called our ‘lowest lying floor’ as it’s above grade now) things are less rosy.  I’m actively turning a blind eye to the dirt floor, to the hanging ducts and to the 2 X 4 holding up my house at the moment (the vertical steel beams are not yet set).

All I see is that the old gas meter has been removed and way back in the left corner the sewer pipe has been reconnected. Whoa, slow down!

Where some see a giant to-do list, I see what’s been done and how far we’ve come, bit-by-bit. Today it was windows.