Odd examples

Five years ago today, I posted about my new gharden hose trolly and its predecessors. A few days later, I blogged about the trolleys, too. The photo up top is from from my Facebook post five years ago today, and I used it again for my blog post, so this is the third time I’ve used it. Things have changed since then, or haven’t changed, or both, and that’s an odd example of how my life has gone over the past several years.

The third reel (the one with no handle) got an entirely new life: I use it too store an absurdly long string of Christmas tree lights—which I haven’t used for two years (last year I put up my old, small tree, and this past year I put up nothing because I was having work done in the house in mid-December, and I ran out of time.

This year is likely to be different yet again because of the exterior work I’m doing or having done. And, I may even put up my Christmas tree this year. Over the past five years I’ve done many different things, and worked on many different projects, and the storyline running through all of them is change: Making changes, changing my mind about the changes, or sometimes changing the changes after the fact. So, the story of the three hose reels and what have happened to them since I wrote about them five years ago is actually fairly typical of pretty much everything in my life. I don’t know whether that’s typical for everyone else, but that’s my reality—and I’m okay with that.

I know that there will be more changes this year, and every year I’m lucky enough to get—and I know most of them will be about more exciting things than hose reels. Whatever the new ones are about, they probably won’t be such odd examples of my constant change. I’m okay with that, too.