"Life well lived"? Fiscal Year in review

At this month, a new FY year begins for many academic libraries.  Some don't start until October because of government connections, but mine POWs always seemed to start now.  For that reason alone, I have the habit to review activities over the past 12 months.

Since I'm no longer working full time--or even part time right now-- here is what I've accomplished around my house.  I've already reviewed briefly some of the educational and entertainment activities.

These lists help put into perspective those areas we hoped to accomplish and what we actually did.
This year, I hoped to  replace linoleum and carpeting in my house.  This was a decade long project which kept being delayed because the money went to travel instead.  However by August I had done this.
I also had plans to repaint most of the downstairs and was able to finish those tasks as well as paint my bedroom.  I still have to repaint two rooms but I'm not in a hurry about that.
I was able to set up the repairs on my deck and hope to have that done within the month.

I repaired the screen to my deck.  This was an accomplishment which required waiting until I could find someone with the right size vehicle to carry said screen to a Home improvement center.  The hole in the screen was too large for a mending project.  The good news as that at the time I needed to finish this for the year, my church started a helping neighbors group which would do small projects for people in the church. That was in God's timing which I didn't foresee when I discovered this chore.

Here's an area some women would deride, but I've always wanted a better way to keep my house clean without using up the only free day in the week.  I've been able to do that and have significantly reduced the amount of time involved in completing the weekly cleaning.  As someone once said cleaning isn't really enjoyed, but the results of not cleaning are less desired.

My washing machine developed a problem which turned out to be again in God's timing, as the repairman located the problem--a switched hose-- but proceeded to perform a maintenance inspection and fix other problems for the fee he had to charge for coming out.

In sum, houses are money pits in large and small ways, but some pits don't have to be dug immediately!