Yes and No

Friday morning is starting to show up, the sky is getting lighter, the garbage truck just rolled by, stopping out front for our garbage can. Rainstorm last night, lots of lightning and thunder. But we hardly heard a sound, these modern houses, besides the roofline being strapped to the concrete pad against hurricanes, are built for silence from the outside world. Again, as I've mentioned here recently, quite unlike the last two houses we lived in, my 1912 Old Place and the 1900 rectory in Apalachicola. The quiet gives a feeling of apartness from the world that I think I like but am not sure; anyone who grew up in my lifetime might prefer to hear the milk man's truck clinking by and the roosters crowing all over town at this awakening Time of day.

The waiting for our own condo 7H to be finished is long, and the progress slow. Yesterday we were inside for a few minutes, the air handler for the new HVAC system is in place and installed, and other things were going on, not sure what because it was lunchtime and the contractor's folks were away, we try to time our visits then so as never to interfere or slow anything down. Good news, Elevator 3, one of two in the south tower was back in commission and we rode it up. The waiting, as I say, is long and depressing, especially at this Time of life when we loved our home so and have no Time to waste! Seeing 7H and Harbour Village slowly come back to life is both exciting and frustrating, the come back is exciting but the slowly is frustrating in the extreme. Not to mention that hurricane season 2019 is just a little over a month away; although hurricane season for us seems mostly to be the month of October, with our personal hurricanes forming in the Gulf of Mexico and barreling northward. I'm in the game for post-hurricane this time, but never again: if it happens again, I'm out of here, headed for - - where to go that Mother Nature doesn't notice you? As Mr. Tumnus the fawn told Lucy while looking around warily, "even some of the trees are on her side."

The pics, snapped just now through our bedroom window. No, the Beemer is not mine and yes the lot next door has no house on it yet.

TW

Quote from Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe