For want of......
Sometimes the simplest chores grow into huge projects. We plan to redo the dining room. We have purchased anaglypta wallpaper for the ceiling, which hopefully, will give us the look of tin ceiling tiles without the trouble and expense. The walls will be red. Which red is still being debated and there is even dissension on the part of the Puter Ho as to the wisdom of using red at all. The plan is to have this all done by Easter.
But enough about the particulars. The dining room is full. It is a small room and it is packed. Before my time here, it functioned as a playroom for a toddler. I brought a large table, six chairs, a buffet and lots of stuff. Although it was easily transformed into a dining room, one large white cabinet remained because something had to hold all the stuff. Now there is a spiffy new corner china cabinet destined to replace the huge white monstrosity.
Simple. We'll move the white monster into the garage. But wait. The garage is full. So we start on the garage and realize we can't really make way there until we have a large item pickup from the city. The city of Fort Worth last year went to once a week small cart pick up. We have a cart for garbage and a cart for recycling. We are always behind. These carts must be hidden from the street except on pickup day, so where do you suppose they reside? In the garage, of course. Adding to my frustration, I learn that a "Big Trash & Brush" pickup does not include picking up bags of garbage, of which I now have many, but only large items. What's more they cannot tell you when they will come, so one must place the mess on the curb and wait for pickup. Something I'm certain the neighborhood association will frown heavily upon.
Can you see where this is going? The dining room project should be doable in a weekend, maybe a bit more. But:
For want of a nail
the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe
the horse was lost.
For want of a horse
the rider was lost.
For want of a rider
the battle was lost.
For want of a battle
the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want
of a horseshoe nail.