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Why do you torment me so? Sitting upon our lot, so regal and proud. You stand ready and sincere, eager to do your best. Will our time come? Will you build us a home, like you have for so many before? Are we not worthy of your effort? Do we not meet your conditions? Have we not suffered enough? Please provide me cause for your contempt!
Deere Tractor…please do your bidding and torment me no more for we too are regal and proud. We stand ready to begin this journey and are up to the task. Our resolve is strong and we will endure this tribulation. Forsake your pause and take to the task at hand. The journey will be long and arduous but we are in it together. Deere tractor, you are not alone as we are by your side. Bring me your worries and I will make them no more.
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Deere tractor, torment me no more.
Best of Wishes,
Tormented Home Buyer/Builder
Ok, Mr. Glass-is-Half-Empty! Maybe the Deere Tractor is simply sitting there, gathering his strength to handle the Herculean task that lies ahead: digging the mighty foundation that will hold your new castle. Perhaps he is the scout tractor, the only one brave enough to go ahead and report to the others what they will face. He is the William Wallace of tractors, the Braveheart to your Scottish clansmen. Tomorrow, they will be painted with blue stripes and they will dig you a Mighty Foundation. :)
ReplyDeleteOr it is a beatnik tractor, like Jack Kerouac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac) squatting on my land. If I don’t squelch this now, they will multiply, as they pander for handouts to buy and consume more Ripple (http://youtu.be/ciR7Fq2tqJ0) (aka $2 buck chuck in our era. I do love Trader Joes.). Next thing you know I’ll have hordes of Kerouacian tractors spewing drunken rhetoric at innocent passersby. We just can’t have this kind of behavior on our job site. Next thing you know they will be holding peace rallies and running for president.
DeleteI would have gone a little more William Carlos Williams: so much depends/ upon a John Deere Tractor/ ogled in desperation/ beside the "SOLD" sign.
Delete(NICE Kerouac and Ripple reference. If we lived closer, I would suggest you and your wife and I and my husband meet at the Trader Joes for some cheap wine and their roasted coconut chips to drown our respective impatience.)
Hang in there at least there is equipment there which means any day now I know it is frustrating seeing the tractor not moving but Im sure its for the better they probably just want to make sure the weather conditions are perfect. Relax Relate Release its all good!
ReplyDeleteAnd exhale...seeing how we've been holding our breath for 4 months. Were hanging in there. I think I have lost my mind somewhere along the way though. Thanks for the words of encouragement. I know it will be worth it in the end.
DeleteI feel you. No words of encouragement make it better when you wait as long as we have.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to the day I can post congrats on your post letting us know you've closed!
DeleteThanks. I know once they start it will go fast. That is a big mental milestone and we were looking forward to that symbolic moment. Once it starts we can say we are closer now to finishing then we were before. OBTW, nobody mentioned it but I can spell. The title was a corny play on words (Deere like in John Deere the tractor versus Dear). Stupid I know but I am delirious and trying to not blow a gasket.
DeleteHaha, I caught the play on words!
DeleteWe are thinking of doing a John Deere bday party for my son this year. I am such a girly girl and not into trucks or tractors or whatever but he is obsessed!
DeleteGreat post (even though it's a shame you had to write it) it really does capture the frustration felt when we as homebuilders get tired of the waiting. The waiting game and the highs/lows of the process really do a number on you but it is truly a relief when the finally start. That darn tractor will be in use soon.
ReplyDeleteNo, other's words don't help the torment but some of us really have been there-playing the waiting game for months (for no good reason)!!
It got so bad for me that my 5 year old son told me he wanted to be a "builder" so he could build me my house. Pretty bad if a kid understands you have gone a little "off" because of a house :)
I was delirious...should have been a bit tipsy but couldn't get my hands on any $2 buck chuck. ;-) Seriously having others out there going through the same thing has really helped to make the process easier. Just having a community and people to lean on that are going through the same thing, really makes a world of difference. Thanks for listening to the rants.
DeleteThis post was outrageously entertaining and heartfelt!! We waited from January to October before we broke ground! I understand this post all to well!!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BUILDING!!
Your blog was one of the first we found. I didn't even know these existed. We were looking at two communities, one had the Renaissance homes and the other Traditional. We had originally researched the first community and really liked the Rome. A really great floor plan and yours inspired us. In the end we liked the second community more but they did not build the Rome, so we settled on the Highgrove. Thank you for sharing your story and inspiring us. Much of what we selected in our home was made much easier due to your inspiration.
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