2020 Life Logs, Day 90: Chipping Away
Date: Monday, March 30, 2020
Weather: Overcast and Misty; High 44 degrees, Low 36 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today a children’s song about chipping away layers of fossil rock kept creeping into my head. “Chip, chip away those layers of clay. Knock, knock, knock to the fossil rock.” I arrived at Heather and Jed’s new house around noon to install shelving liners in the kitchen. Then mid-afternoon after hours of working and schooling at home, the Goldstones arrived. Heather started chipping away at the stubbornly attached wallpaper on the walls of the master bedroom while Sam and Jonah were upstairs removing the carpeting tack strips with hammers and crowbars. Jed was unloading a van full of bins from the old basement to the new. And Ollie and I were taking down curtains, putting them in the washer while going back to wash the windows, putting the curtains in the dryer and then putting the curtains back up. We are all working as fast and as hard as we can, yet it is a little overwhelming to think about how much more needs to be done. But we shall persist until the move is complete.
