Making Due with Summer Time

One of the things that I've noticed during Summertime is the unevenness of it, and I've never figured out where it comes from. Some days its hot, and sunny, but with a breeze the humidity only seems slightly uncomfortable. Other hot days it pains to just move through the air walking along the flower beds. Then there are are the repreive days with the heat and humidity are both lower and it is almost refreshing to walk. The effect of these variations is that some days drag along seemingly moving slower and slower and others will spend along at firefly speed coming and going before one can sit an enjoy them.

And the speed of the day has nothing to do with the amount of work to do or the amount that gets done. Some "fast days" contain long lists and great satisfaction at the end and so do some "slow days", although I have noticed that it is more noticable at the end of day if it was a fast one and it is during the day that the slow ones stick out.

The affective of all of this is an unevenness to what is completed any specific day. Consequently the work sees to move in a herky-jerky fashion - some days much is completed and other days it seems like nothing is done.

Take, for example, the work on my soon to be hopefully finished riverside Studio. In the beginning, with the mixing and pouring of cement foundations and setting the floor joists, work seemed to stretch over many days, ever so slowing progressing from week to week. Once the floor planks were laid, the walls seemed to jump up from the piles of 2x4s and were constructed in one weekend. But this past weekend, the work involved the placement and construction of roof rafters and the snail's pace of Summer returned. Working early morning to well into the night, only half as much work was completed as had been hoped. Even with the extra light of day-light savings and the hot weather of early July, the work snailed along - a slow day to be sure. And at the end of the day, it seemed little movement forward was had.

In order to finish the Studio and to be able to enjoy the fruits of this labor, the remaing weeks will need to be those satisfying, fast days when shingles and trim boards will jump from the piles of supplies and every workday will show a jump in progress as the Studio birth is completed.