If I never hear the sound of construction again, it will be too soon. We just have to keep reminding ourselves that in a week's time when this is all completed, we'll all be better off for it.
A whim, simply that, enticed me to buy the vacant shop next to my own and the apartment above it as well. So for three days now they've been knocking out walls upstairs and expanding - combining the four bedrooms in this and three in the other apartment to four singles, a double and a master bedroom and three bathrooms. It is a necessary expansion where the apartment is concerned; having three young men and a young lady who all have their own lives and need their own space as well as the family that keeps flitting in and out. But it is much more of an
indulgence where the shop is concerned.
I've had them install doors between the smoke room behind the shop and the back of the shop next to mine and repairs are currently being done to what had been the kitchen of a little diner before the owners went out of business. I have a few contacts from San Francisco willing to relocate to run a little cafe and tea shop, with plenty of attention paid to the special clientèle who have come to frequent my own shop.
Which does remind me that I need to extend a hand to some of my favorite siblings for their blessings in this shared business venture.
Business has always served as a welcome distraction, hasn't it? And the sound of work being done, much as I hate it, does help to drown out some of the unwanted noise going around right now. In some regards I feel as though this could not come at a worse time, but at the same time I feel it is something of a blessed diversion.
( Private to Belladonna, Cocaine, Mandrake and Shrooms; later opened to Henbane, Datura and Salvia )