At the beginning of this week, I had such high hopes for getting a LOT of audio edits done. But then there were a couple of personal dramas that had me already asking on Monday if this week that felt like a month could please be done with. And then Tuesday came waltzing in. Stove No Worky Worky Ding! My phone sounds with a message from one of Cottage East's guests asking if they could use the stove. Alex is at work, so I'm handling messaging. Oh yes, that's perfectly fine, I tell them....

We're... I started to say "We are done working on Cottage East." But that isn't entirely accurate. We still have a yard to landscape (I just tossed out plenty of mini-clover seed today), and a fence to build. A couple of little inconsequential fixes still, but... yeah... the house is functioning for the first time, tonight, as a rental property. About an hour ago, I welcomed Cottage East's first guest. The emotion that wells up in me just thinking about it is quite literally overwhelming. I...

I'm moving through audio edits again, staring at the dates of the audio narration and trying not to feel guilt over not getting them done sooner. I recorded Zarmina's World in late October, and here it is, early April, and I'm just now getting to the edits! The work on Cottage East has taken so much more time, and a hell of a lot more money, than I ever anticipated, but there you go. Such is the way of these things, and a good reason why I wouldn't want to do home renovation for a living. At...