Life never seems to slow down in this house much. If the pace starts to wane then we move onto the next rush of madness, set ourselves a near on impossible deadline and go for it...again...so in this vain we enter the warm Spring months with another energy zapping, slightly complex project to tackle...THE STAIRS...
Impatient to embrace our new space we moved into the 'barn' when it was 'just enough' complete for us to live in with no added extras! Good old Kiwi pioneering style we have made it through many a break through and lived the moment celebrating each small victory along the way when we finally got another step ahead. I long ago gave up being impatient and accepted that it was in my mental healths best interest to 'enjoy the process' as my husband insisted I must. Off the gas camping stove and onto the big new double oven, off the gas heaters and onto the new woodburner [after one hell freeze over style winter!!], out of the one communal room and into our 'own' adults bedroom with its very own wall and door [the kids are still waiting for their walls!], out of the huge freezing cold bathroom without any privacy and into one with not only a door but walls too!
If all goes well today we will reach another milestone in the project has become our lives...in the barn delicately wrapped in cloth is a gorgeous new set of oak stairs! Today we have the wondrous moment of finally getting rid of the ugly heavy industrial metal stairs that we inherited with the barn....I cannot tell you how much I awaiting the moment when I see them leave my kitchen...I am even happy to wait a long pause before padding my toes up the new oak staircase...it is close enough for me to be able to smell it!
No more painful climbs up and down the old unforgiving metal stairs cringing at each and every step when you foolishly embark on the journey barefooted to make a cup of tea in the morning...no more dust, dirt and lord only knows what else to clean up under the stairs when each tread grates the bottoms of all traveling footwear causing it to fall through the holes and onto my kitchen floor below, no more slicing my hand on the rough metal edges in a careless moment....all to be something of yesterday!!!
As we have some friends coming over tonight to offer some muscle I have thrown on the fire in the menage and this is to be our first BBQ of the Spring...nothing like wining and dining your mates in return for a favour...and man it will be one great moment of celebration after four years of those diggers in my life!!!
Tonight also happens to be our wedding anniversary...nothing like a major engineering execution to test the marriage....
As it is a double celebration I have chilled a special bottle tonight from a local producer in Vertus....Champagne Doyard...the vintner is a real class act and everything is done in great style...from the labeling to the tasting...in a special room centred around a gorgeous chandelier and lined in silk curtains one gets to sample the produce while the producer, dressed in the most stylish of attire, talks you passionately through his delicate wines. Let the champagne flow!!
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