I’d really like to be out in the woods, trying to fling arrows at elk or deer. But before I can get up to hunting camp, I have three or four projects I have to get done around the house.
That wouldn’t be such an issue if everything could go smoothly. The projects I need to finish should only take about a half hour each, so I should have been able to get them all done before the season started. Unfortunately, though, we can’t do anything at my place simply. Every project requires us to do several other projects just to get the tools or equipment we’re using working, or we run into an issue in the project itself that adds several more layers of complexity. A half-hour project inevitably turns into a full-weekend project. And there go the plans for a weekend hunting trip.
Am I alone here, or is this how it works for everyone else, too? When I watch the how-to videos on YouTube, nobody ever stops halfway through the demo and says, “Oh, crud, somebody plumbed this with the wrong materials, so now we have to dig the line back 40 more feet and replace all this piping.” Or as they’re showing how to replace the water pump on the tractor, they snap off the rusted bolt and have to spend three hours drilling it out of the block. Do they just edit all that stuff out, or do other people really have projects that actually go according to plan? I imagine those people never have to cancel their long-awaited hunting plans.
The good news is that I’m almost to the end of the project list. I should have everything done, even with the inevitable glitches, with a couple weeks left in the rifle season. I normally don’t hunt the opening weekend anyway, so it should all work out. As long as those remaining projects only go moderately wrong, and not horribly wrong.
