tangible

now that we're home from mexico, i have shifted my attention to landlording. we have a new tenant moving in at main street in two weeks, and another tenant moving out here in one month.

getting main street cleaned up, touched up and fixed up (new exterior kitchen door is being installed tomorrow), it is time consuming, yet satisfying. it's good to see efforts producing results in an immediate fashion. sometimes parenting takes months and years before seeing results.

this afternoon i left eamon at josh and corky's place to play with oscar and ezra while i did some work over at our main street house. he had a blast. it's been almost 2 weeks since he was at daycare, and i think he misses having kids to play with. i really appreciated their willingness to have him over.

while i was there, tinkering in solitude, i was reminded about how great that place is. i love our new house, and so sometimes i forget how much i loved living on main street. that doesn't surprise me, because sometimes when we'd be away for a few days, i'd feel like our place was too small. but then we'd get back there, and i found that i loved it just the way it was. it was good being there. like spending time with an old friend. while it didn't make me want to move back there, it felt nice to visit.