Except there seem to be crews of people steadily laboring on the renovation. The last I heard they were on schedule, even a bit ahead. Maybe they'll finish on time. The building has a "vacant" look. Perhaps it's the missing windows, or the temporary chain-link fence, or the active piles of dirt...
For a couple of years,or was it three?, yes three, I did four design appointments a day for Behnke's. Five days a week. Two hour meeting, one hour to travel. Do it again, and again, and then one more time. Don't ask. Because the appointments often necessitated the client leaving work early, I occasionally got there before they did. I swear I got to a point where I could sense whether a house was occupied or not. I admit that sometimes there are clues, overt or subtle, but not every time. And there were times I sweat I could "feel" whether a house was empty or not.
One one occasion I got the distinct feeling that the house was occupied. It was the first appointment of the day so I was probably a little early but not a lot. I rang the bell. Nothing. I waited 10 minutes and rang again. Still nothing. I called on my cell phone. No answer. After 45 minutes with no response, I left......The client called me about an hour later. He had been trapped in a shed in his backyard by a large buck attending upon half a dozen does. He'd been there all the time. I knew it.
Today we had rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain and gloom. In light of a forecast calling for a resumption of precipitation in the form of "thundersnow" accumulating at 2+"/hour, the Federal Government sent non-essential workers home two hours early. Once in a while it's good to be non-essential. So now I'm home waiting for the show to begin. Before I left I walked through the greenhouses. The succulents called out to me.
