renovations pending; the life pursuit

Hiatus is the appropriate term, a "break" sounds... well, accidental and I was never comfortable with the word sabbatical outside of a university setting or the pipe-and-slippers crowd. So a hiatus it is or rather was and it was a good one at that. But like a college pregnancy or the hangover that precedes... this was unplanned. We had high hopes for this summer like the years before with plans to tear into more complicated house work but instead we did this:

And this:

I'm a boat

and we learned the true value of our pick-up truck under the clause of clunker, or at least one of us did.

don't look back in anger

and we began to spread the love by helping out others. I helped this guy:

turn his bathroom into this:turnabout is fairplay

But the summer does end, and not unlike the television network's summer break, our hiatus drew to a close. So we look forward to this new season of home renovation not unlike the comfortable return to network prime-time broadcasting - like a warm hug from some returning relative to be captured on the film of our reality TV friends.

hearts