It Can Be Done

The past year and a half has been …

Interesting?

It has definitely been a project! It has been an interesting project.

The project, in some ways, is about complete. It is, in other ways, ongoing. In a matter of just a few short days we will be done here and pull out the lane for the last time. There is, though we have exercised a lot of forethought and care in getting things set up at the cabin, quite a lot yet to do at that end of the move. That's the ongoing part of the deal. The goal, in a project like this, is not the Finish Line.

None of the ongoing part is arduous. The arduous, if any of it can be called that, is behind us. The most arduous, I think, has been the many back and forth trips that involved a three hour chunk of time each time a trip has been made. At least one a week. Sometimes twice a week. Then, after the weekly once or twice, we'd go for the weekend to relax some and to work some. Relaxing work. We've always come back from those weekends feeling rested.

The number of trips that it has taken could have been greatly reduced had we moved things in bigger loads. We chose not to travel that bigger load road. Small logical loads instead. Slow and steady one logical and orderly step at a time. Things, this way, have been kept as manageable as possible without becoming overwhelmed. It would have been easy to get the cart ahead of the ox. Fortunately, the ox has stayed in front of the cart from the git-go.

Prioritizing and managing the logistics has been a bit challenging. The worst part of the whole deal, I think anyway, has been the issue of having our personal belongings … even drastically downsized as our belongings now are ... stored or stashed in three places in two counties. Simple things, like looking for a ball of string yesterday to tie up a bundle of Goldenrod … then finally realizing that it, and a good number of other convenient commodities, are in those totes in the cabin loft … can be a little aggravating.

We have previously mentioned that we would not recommend a project like this to the uninitiated.

That should not, however, be taken as something prohibitive. It certainly isn't intended to be anything more or less than a Caution Sign. Both eyes need to be open.

The simple truth of the matter is that it can be done!

Shirli and I … and The Cabin On Huckleberry Hill … are proof that it can be done. It can even be done after the sixty year age marker!

We are not the Original Model. There are a lot of models. There's honestly nothing original about what we are doing. It's been done before by a lot of people in a lot of places at a lot of different times. Not by anyone in our neighborhood, in our families, or by any of our close associates that we know of. We'll admit our uniqueness where these people-groups are concerned. We have simply followed the lead of other models and found a way to tailor the deed to our needs.

What was it Farragut was supposed to have said when he sailed into Mobile Bay … Damn the torpedos!

The next logical step, after we accomplish what we need to accomplish this weekend, is to build a proper set of steps.