Reading Throughout A Year of Change
When the new year started we still had contractors at the house, installing the tile floors and doing the stucco finish. We were emptying the rental and the connex as finished spaces in the house allowed. I'd received my tentative job offer from the U.S. Department of Agriculture just before Christmas and had a start date at the end of February. Work on the house continued throughout the year, the largest project being new porches constructed during the summer. I went on three work trips, one to Northern California and two back to Washington D.C. We went to Colorado to see family and hosted friends from Italy for three weeks. We've had a handful of other house guests, a few gatherings with our neighbors, and my parents have moved to Arizona after more than two decades living in Nebraska. It has been a FULL year. During all that I have been slowly checking off my Read Harder challenges for 2023 , finishing the challenge yesterday, November 17. This is my sixth year in a row co