I will taunt you further. Now that I feel secure that I will have a reliable water source, I'm having someone come out to cut out some scrub oaks on the sunny incline near the house so that I can plant a small orchard and a berry patch. I still have to figure out a deer fence though. And for my winter project - I'm starting to look at putting in a water feature in an unlandscaped portion of the front yard that already has water and electricity. I can figure out how to do stone and mortar work - right?
Actually - there's a reason all these home maintenance and improvement projects pop up on my thread so often. I've always been pretty confident that I personally will be ok, and while I worry somewhat about finances, I generally feel assured that I will make what I need to (that may be hubris). So that leaves concern about what this has done to my daughters at the top of the list of things that keep me awake at night, and since my dad passed away, I've had a lot more angst about maintaining the house on my own- so that has become number two. I know I need to reframe it - because the the truth is STBX was always really bad at this kind of stuff, and I guess I should look at it as a new freedom to just do what needs to be done.
He, by the way, seems to have retreated again. He was being fairly open and conversational for a brief stretch but now he seems to be bending over backwards to not see me at child exchanges.
Oh - and I did just buy D7 a ski pass. The one for me didn't pencil out (since I'll have to spend some of those days with D4 in the "snow play" area) - but I'll probably buy one of their discounted "packs" of tickets.
