The House As A Work Pit

The thing about life is that it is a red queen's race. You have to toil, scrape, and claw just to keep what you have or more likely to fall behind just a bit. Getting into a house is not an improvement for me, it is a lateral move to try to keep what I have. Renting no longer makes sense because of a lot of factors like the increasing demand for apartments. Really I am taking on a lot more work in having a house, it has been so nice living in a world where I did not have to shovel walks or do yard work, but the building I am living in is falling down around my ears and the people are going downhill even as the threat of rent increases loom. I am happy to be moving into a house, but it is the sort of putting a good face on a move I would not have picked if I saw a great option for moving to another apartment.

This is not "poor me". Life is about hard work like cooking and cleaning. I am just adding additional work that hopefully will bring me some improvements in my life like fresher fruit and vegetables from my garden and a beautiful yard to look out over while drinking my tea. Make no mistake though, this is going to be a lot more work than I have had to do while living in apartments. More cooking, canning, brewing, and gardening and hopefully no additional going to my paying job.