Rounding Third Base and Heading for Home

At last night’s measure, I have completed 48" of braid for the front window, toward an end goal of approximately 66". That probably still sounds like I’m a long way off, but I’m about to hit a major psychological milestone that should give me a much needed second wind to complete this. That milestone is 50", and it’s just two inches (or an hour of Judge Judy plus an episode of Law & Order Criminal Intent) away.



Once I reach 50", then I have just 16" inches to go. Every inch I complete from that point forward will feel like a more important inch than any I’ve done up to this point. Of course, I’ll want to do a much more accurate measure of the length I need before I cut the braid off the bobbins, so 66" may in fact be 70". But at that point little shall I care.

To be quite honest, I’m getting sick of this project. It’s not that the process is unpleasant, or the product less than desirable. It’s that it is taking such a tremendous amount of time out of each and every day, and the trim/curtain are major obstacles in my anniversary “house completion” goal. I can, and have, worked on other things instead of or alongside the trim. But every day I do that pushes my completion back another 1-2 days. In other words, it whacks the joy out of both the curtain/trim project, and whatever project I slid alongside.

Speaking of joy, last weekend’s trip to Home Depot rewarded me with the remaining 8 dowels I need for the Roman shades. Oh, sure. Dowels aren’t hard to come by, per se. But finding 8 straight dowels is unbelievably challenging. Fortunately, Home Depot seems to have recently received a new shipment of dowels, so I was able to find my 8 by only eyeballing half their inventory, instead of the entire inventory I usually have to sift through just to find 4.



Morning stroll.