Thankful-Day 20

Thankful

for

4 years done

and

5 books filled.

That means that while THIS beautiful sunset was happening...

and I did go outside and open-mouth-stare at how beautiful it all was

and I did try to capture that beauty with my camera

(but the real photo is in my heart)

what I had been doing inside my cabin

for two days

(after I had read a book the first two days)

was organize photos.

STILL DOING THAT!

Yes, I did take my trusty table up with me
and ALL the thousands of photos that aren't in a book yet
and my ihome with pod
and a portable DVD player with a stack of DVD's.

(and yes, that is Mr. Darcy keeping me company on the player)


Really, if anyone had told me last June when I started
that I would still be doing this in November
I might have been too disheartened to begin.

I'm glad I didn't know that
because now I am in deep enough
and close enough to the end to see the "light"
that I know I'll finish.

I thought that this weekend I'd be able
to get it ALL DONE.
I haven't ever had a HUGE chunk
of uninterrupted time to work in
and I didn't know just how much time this takes
because I've been doing it in
bits and spurts all these months past.

This is a very MILD picture of what the room eventually looked like.

I was up until 3:00 AM Tuesday morning because I was
DETERMINED
to get 1995 in the book.

And I did.
1992-1995, full years, are now chronologically in photo books
with notes and dates added
so that as I continue to slowly become
more forgetful (!)
no one will have to wonder who-what-where-when.

It feels real good to be this far.
The amount of photos explodes with Abbie's birth in 1999
and I haven't even begun to organize the thousands of
digital photos on a total of 4 computers (work and home)

but

I am really thankful
that 4 years of photos that nobody has even SEEN
for probably 10 years
are now tucked into their acid-free pockets
and available for my family to look at.

A good thing.