I Can't See It

This is not just a photo of the back of my house showing that I finished painting it.  (Jan, please note that I even painted the electric meter!)
 Nope.  It's more than that.  It's a photo of what denial looks like. It's a photo of an oasis.  Because I can sit back here on my patio, look around, and not see any giant projects that need to be completed.  (I do need to paint the window sashes and trim and replace the storm door, but that's just a day's work so it hardly counts.)  Sitting back here, I can't see the stack of scrap lumber under the carport.  I can't see the east side of the house that's two-thirds unpainted.  I can't see the ginormous heap of demolition debris that's piled up over there, either.  

And I can almost pretend that the disaster on the front porch doesn't exist because I can't see it.  Sigh.

This week, the boys tell me, this week if it doesn't rain the front porch demolition will be finished.  

ps:  If you click on the photo to bigify it, you can see Louis Cat's pitiful face in the bedroom window.