Brighter days ahead

Well so far life seems to be on the upswing. I have blogged some in my other blog about things. (my one I keep for healing) I had to go to the city the other day for my youngest's surgery which for me is a big deal as I've been battling agoraphobia for some time. Did actually pretty well with it and even when under the duress of the van not shifting while on the free way with Semi's blowing past us while we were doing bare minimum speed limit and then trying to make turns and it stalling at intersections. Still have another big trip to go but not nearly so bad as this one was very early in the morning and I have difficulty with that anyway and the other is afternoon which is a lot better, shorter trip, less stressfull all around. Just have to get our van going. Have a lot of projects on hold but with the warm spring like weather all I need to do is find time...easier said than done. Staying busy like usual but I am hopeful. I need to redo our front porch. (It needs more support beams up under it and the wood needs replacing.) I am also hoping I will chance across the gas line as I seem to remember seeing it when I pulled the board up last time. My dad had said it was a very thin line (old timey gas line) and it went into the house in a funky place. The gas company could not find it. If I can find it it makes getting our gas lines fixed and everything back on a lil easier. Hubby still has plans to rip up the floors inside the house and we have some water line work to do at some point. There is no real crawl space under our house or well not if you are not a very tiny person anyway. I plan to enclose the front porch some but am going to need help. Gotta have at least one kid to watch the youngest and play with her (which the two older that are at home now one of them won't do it at all and the other has no patience so that is hard) so that hubby can maybe help me lift the board that I would be putting across it and all since the one who was helping me with it last time isn't here. (My middle of the three older) I want to put rails in around the porch and enclose the bottom half somewhat. Hoping hubby can help me break down some more pallets for wood two since that is definitely a two person job. This summer I hope to have rain barrels as our local lake is nearly dry and we are still on outdoor rationing (which no one seems to notice as much because it is winter...well in theory LOL and there is no watering to be done) ...though by this summer we'll be needing it. Hopefully we will get some rain this spring or they say they will have to start buying water and our bills will go up. We have some plans for our mini garden though that will hopefully work despite the dry weather. I will post more later but at this time am just very worn out. It has been a long week. I know this blog may not have matched the title but I do feel like things are starting to turn around for us...and am very hopeful. 

Dreaming

Wandering soul free spirit
Feet bare in the loam
the sounds of life, can you hear it?
echos from where you roam


Take me with you 
my hand in yours
Forest of dreams we run through
lost in hours


For time means nothing here
lead me away
neither pain nor fear
no more night and day


Only the moment we are in
feeling the breezes play
breathing out and in
if only we could stay




Behind closed eyes 
peaceful it would seem
a world beyond that lies 
To sleep again perchance to dream