what is happening in that small room

how quickly a simple bathtub replacement, can spiral into an "everything replacement." sink {sledgehammer accident}, toilet, wallpaper, molding, etc., etc. i wish that you could all see what is happening in that small room. the pipes beneath the floor, the two by tens{?}, and the cement poured inbetween the supports. how could it possibly have been that hard to rip the floor up?

a house that we think was built in the 1870's. what it all amounts to, is that the job we thought would take two days carries on. lunges forward like a heavy and sagging truck. we are now predicting this will take over a week. at least there is the payoff of being able to take a shower when it's all done. a long and beautiful shower.

and i read about another man's winter. a harsh and cold winter in montana without electricity. his efforts to adapt.

" a couple of weeks ago, i read an article in the sunday new york times about the writer john berger. when he was around sixty, he abandoned his fine urban woods to go live with peasants in the french alps. he was quoted as saying that the only way to earn the peasants' respect, is by trying to do the things they do, doing those things ridiculously badly, and then asking their advice, so that they become the teacher, and you the learner."
~rick bass

perhaps i should call a plumber.

Posted by jeff pitcher at January 12, 2005 09:32 AM

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