Build Momentum

 The last few months have been great. We have visited with much of our family, attended weddings, hosted parties, made changes at work, celebrated holidays, maintained our cars, and even found the time to earn a little extra money. This is daily life. Daily life is good. But it feels like I lost my momentum because of this here Christmas tree.

So I recycled it. 

 

 

 

Like most projects, I am behind schedule and over budget. Now, I have not made poor choices with my purchases. Everything so far has cost what it had to in order to get the level of quality that we desire. So I feel that I can't control the prices that are set by people that could care less about my budget. I will continue to find creative ways to achieve our goals without wasting money, and the rest is what it is. So that's the budget. As for the schedule, that is something I can control. As much as it hurt to re-evaluate my deadlines, I did. And I tried to be both ambitious and realistic.

 

Roughing in drainage plumbing is something that I have never done before. I have done quite a bit of plumbing, but I'd always had something to start with. Whether they were right or wrong, someone else had always made the difficult decisions. So I scratched my head over where to locate this toilet flange for over a week. The structural members running under this trailer did not make that an easy decision.

 

 

Once that decision was made, things began to come together pretty easily. So drainage and ventilation of the drainage plumbing is close to done. Supply plumbing should be relatively easy.

These trailers don't belong to me. That's why I stopped to take the picture. Spartan trailers and mobile homes are just not that common. And if I see them, they are usually dormant. These ones, however, were just moved to this site 8-10 miles from my home along a road that I travel almost every day. I can't wait to see someone out and about. Whoever you are, my name is Nathan and I will be stopping by! Spotting these trailers made me wonder what the owner's intent was. Not that they owe me or anybody an explanation, but I wonder. And it's at this moment that I realize that I have not stated my own intent on this forum . Up next: A Statement of Purpose.