Seasonality:Embracing Change : TIME TO TACKLE UNFINISHED PROJECTS

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

TIME TO TACKLE UNFINISHED PROJECTS

We have owned this house for seven years now. (Is that possible?) I have been living in it fulltime for four, and my hubby for one. We have pared down our belongings, unpacked all our boxes, paved the driveway, installed the water catchment system, put on a new roof, built the Cantina Garden, added a terrace patio, added on a dining room, remodeled the master bath, and replaced the flooring in the kitchen and bath. The only things we still haven't got around to are: 1) rescuing our rather luxurious garage utility room (it even has a shower, a toilet, and a large utility sink in it) from being a junk stash, and transforming it into something fun like a laundry/craft/garden room, and 2) finally completing that blankity-blank half-painted cinder block wall!

This is just the painted half. The part closest to the house -- the really tall part that requires ladders -- is still raw cinderblock.

I've pretty much decided that the only way this #%*@ wall will ever get finished is if I turn it into a party. If I can figure out a good time when it's dry enough (you don't want water seeping through while you paint, from the soil behind the wall), but before it gets too hot, I'm going to go out and buy a mess of paints and supplies, fix up a mess of good food (with plenty of my Mexican Chocolate Streusel Brownies), fill my coolers with icy beverages, then call all my friends and tell them to come grab a brush. I think I will just let them have their way with it, and see what happens. Hopefully, we will end up with something unique and wonderful, like one of those below. After all, this is the town whose motto is "Keep Wimberley Weirder!" Well, then again, maybe not too unique. I do have that dang home-owners association to deal with, and I sure as heck don't want them to come back and tell me the whole thing needs to be RE-painted!