"Build" - My Word for 2024

 As I ease into 2025, I'm also thinking back on 2024. Rather than a resolution, I had a word — BUILD — and this is what I wrote about it. "Build" ended up meaning a lot about my physical environment instead of all the meanings of the word:

Our front doors: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/03/welcome-build-post.html

Art: (not a "Build" post per se but close enough): https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/02/femme-au-plateau.html

The new woodwork above the fireplace: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/03/keep-home-fires-burning-build-post.html

A lifetime dream of going to Africa: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/africa-build-post.html

Front curtains (working on a new storm window now): https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-my-defense-i-was-left-unsupervised.html

Scraping the garage: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/scraping-by-build-post.html

Planting at Summit: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-showers-build-post.html

Summit pavers: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/05/paved-with-good-intentions-build-post.html

My new chair (it's now on the other side of the living room:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/05/have-seat-build-post.html

Paint fails: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/05/sometimes-it-sucks-build-post.html

Using a cleaner: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/05/sometimes-we-all-need-little-help-build.html

Annual pots at Summit: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/05/getting-potted-on-summit-build-post.html

Patrick's fence building prowess: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/07/fences-and-not-in-august-wilson-way.html

More Summit yard stuff: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/07/everyone-around-here-is-tired-build-post.html

New knobs at the Summit bathroom: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-quick-fix-build-post.html

Floor work at Ashland: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/07/who-wore-it-better-build-post.html

A new dishwasher at Summit: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/07/summit-dishwasher-build-post.html

Summit native garden: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/07/native-garden-build-post.html

Finishing the Winter Street native garden (and Patrick did a bee lawn after that): https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/08/winter-street-native-garden-build-post.html

Summit laundry area: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/08/airing-dirty-laundry-build-post.html

Summit cozy spots: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/08/cozy-spots-build-post.html

Labor Day labors at Ashland after the Fringe billeter kind of trashed the place: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/09/labor-day-labors-somewhat-of-build-post.html

Cabinet cleaning at Ashland: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/09/cabinets-and-not-in-political-way-build.html

The state preservation conference: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/09/state-preservation-conference-build.html

Outside holiday decor: https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/12/outside-decor-build-post.html

What did I learn from all this?

- As I suspected, "build" ended up having mainly a literal meaning for me (at least in blog posts), and that's ok.

- A lot of the work was at Summit, which might have ben part of what led to me feeling less finished about things. I'd like to see what else we could do at Ashland.

-  A lot of "build" meant "garden" to me (which is a hint towards my 2025 word!)

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PS - I also succeeded in posting almost every week to the #52weeksofhome challenge on Instagram, entirely pictures of Ashland. I'm planning on doing it again this year — join me?

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