Back to Business

After yesterday's airy fairy post, let's get back to business. The answer to all the questions asked are - "Patience is a Virtue"... or so they say. Except when patience was handed out I was probably somewhere running after a butterfly or chatting away with an angel. Today I saw this poster:

Enough said about that.  In all honesty and maybe the irony of it is that living here in Nieu Bethesda is teaching me to be patient.  And totally off the topic, have you noticed that I succeeded in loading the poster.  Yeah me... except still battling with the photo's.  I won't give up... patience.

So I have been battling to get a quote from the builder, it's been six weeks now, so I've given up.  My husband reminded me of the saying "do what you can with what you have where you are" and so in the light of the fact that my shop will be small and will have a rustic feel to it I decided to work with the existing features in the garage.  I still need to do some renovations though and have contracted with my staff member who works in the garden to do the needed work, he is in fact a carpenter by profession and able to do what I require. He will be starting immediately after the easter weekend and hopefully I will be able to do the decor by the end of April 2012.  Have already secured an old counter with which I am very pleased.  Love it !!

In the meantime I'm keeping myself busy with finding suppliers and ordering stock, working in my garden, catching up on reading, doing some craft projects, life in the village, walking and relaxing a bit after 30 years of work. And off course the normal day to day tasks of doing the washing, tending to my house, my daughter and my pets.  

Do I miss the city, city life, my job, my old life.  Seriously?!  No.  Isn't that one of the fears that hold us back from making big changes to our lives, what if I miss what I have, what if this is as good as it gets, what if it isn't what I imagined it to be, what if what if what if. I do miss my family and friends. But I am happy here where I am today. And that's good enough...