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You live long enough in one place, trust me, you\u2019ll spend your golden years repairing the things you built.\u00a0 Fences, outbuildings, roofs, gates, probably all of it if you were an itinerant carpenter like myself.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really build stuff to last, don\u2019t ask me why, just figured fast is good, go for the artsy-fartsy, don\u2019t worry, be happy.\u00a0 I did<\/em> try to build our house to last, maybe the only thing I figured might be worth the additional effort.\u00a0 And forget about that chestnut of Ben Franklin\u2019s: any job worth doing is worth doing well.\u00a0 Total BS!\u00a0 Let\u2019s move along, Ben, not every damn job is worth killing yourself over.<\/p>\n Needless to say, now that I\u2019m a senior citizen, what down here on the salty South End qualifies as an Old Fart, half my time is spent tearing down, repairing, salvaging and otherwise wrestling with my too many buildings, old fences, rotting wellhouses and odd experiments in architecture and art.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as if I didn\u2019t expect to outlive these things, I just couldn\u2019t wrap my mind around future maintenance issues.\u00a0 Probably figured when they go to rust and rot and ruin, hell, build another one.<\/p>\n I wouldn\u2019t say Laziness is a virtue, but in my case, it seems to be a creed of some sort, one I probably wouldn\u2019t recommend to the kids, but at this late date, I really hate to spend my last years re-evaluating life choices or character traits.\u00a0 Besides, I have fences to rebuild, roofs that leak, orchards to prune, hedges to keep back, plumbing problems and \u2026 well, hell, the list is endless.\u00a0 At some point I may have to let the past go.\u00a0 All those regrets, the disappointments, even the successes \u2026 the fences can\u2019t\u00a0 be mended, what was kept out will eventually come on in, let it go, just let it go.<\/p>\n With luck you won\u2019t question why you built the fence in the first place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You live long enough in one place, trust me, you\u2019ll spend your golden years repairing the things you built.\u00a0 Fences, outbuildings, roofs, gates, probably all of it if you were an itinerant carpenter like myself.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really build stuff to last, don\u2019t ask me why, just figured fast is good, go for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5062,5063,5064],"class_list":["post-15977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-entropy","tag-eternal-to-do-list","tag-rebuilding"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15978,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions\/15978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}