Equal and Opposite Reaction

You know what's funny? We thought we were done tearing stuff out of our house. See, we've gotten to the part where things are being built rather than being destroyed. As you can see in this photo, the space that used to look like this now looks like this.





The part I'm excited about is the part where there are walls and stuff, rather than big piles of rubble. Katherine and I will be tiling this space next week. Whee!











But yesterday, Carlos told us we had a little problem with the floor in the 3rd floor hallway. It seems the balusters (the lathe-turned spindles that sit vertically below the railing and hold it up) needed to be pulled out in order to lay the floor. Don't ask. I told him go ahead and pull them out, but I'm going to go somewhere else and pretend I don't know that more things are being destroyed in my house. If I were Catholic I would have crossed myself, but I'm really, really not Catholic. This is our railing sans balusters.



So, things go up, things fall down. Thus is the nature of all things. I breathe deeply and call my therapist.