We actually closed on our renovation loan tonight. After months of fretting and planning, it all came down to signing and initialIng 4000 sheets of paper. Totally mind numbing. And now we’re good. The new foundation dig begins Thursday.

I guess it’s time for the photo book to help Jesse make her transition; but first, here’s my own transition aid.

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In the great green house

There was a sunflower height chart

and some weird colored mold

And a picture of —

a rainbow in a pot of gold.

And there were pink coneflowers in a field of more flowers

And carpeted stairs

and some shit piled on chairs

and an old swinging door

And an old floor

and a tree and a fan and a nasty white stove

and a quiet red ladybug whispering “just go.”

—

Good bye room

Good bye gold

Good bye rainbow in a pot of gold

Good bye ugly counter

and weird color mold

Good bye coneflowers

Good bye field of flowers

Good bye stairs

Good bye chairs

Good bye broken dishwasher

and good bye galvanized steel water

Good bye floor

and good bye door

Good bye tree

and good bye fan hole

Good bye nobody

Good bye stove

and goodbye to the ladybug whispering “just go.”

Good bye pre-construction peace

Good bye clean air

Good bye shitty kitchens everywhere.