Out with the Old, In with the New
Well, another year is coming to an end. And another is beginning. When you have seen as many come and go as I have, it’s not even a monumental thing. We don’t always even stay awake to greet the new year…it’s really not much different.
Some years I have high hopes with the new beginning. Often I set lofty goals…or resolutions, which like those made by most of us get lost by the wayside before the first twelfth of the year is out.
2014 will go down in history for me as a very expensive year…a year of much change. At this writing, I am working on the second paper to be published from the old Tillman House Restaurant, and the old Monticello News building is almost empty (but we are having a yard sale Friday and Saturday…please come get what’s left).
It is a bittersweet move.
The News office has been next door for as long as most anyone can remember…certainly as long as my family has been involved, which is almost 40 years. It’s sad to leave it.
But, we have rented that space all those years, and it needs work. This building became available for a very good price before The News office did. It made more sense to put the money in this building.
It will be a fine new home for the paper. It already is looking good, and we’ll get settled in before too terribly long. But, it will be a while before it feels right, I expect.
And, it will still be a couple weeks or more before we get the STUFF brought from next door put away. Do you know how many notepads can accumulate on one desk? Multiply that times three or more desks being combined. We have 100s…all shapes and sizes. We may even have enough ink pens to last us all year…if they write.
You see, in moving and cleaning out, between stuff brought from dad’s three years ago, and stuff lost in desks however many years ago, there’s lots of stuff. However, pens may not write after laying around for extended periods of time. Pads will still accept writing though…they don’t spoil like pens do.
And did I mention paper clips?
We’re trying to leave most of the dust and cobwebs at the old place, or in the outdoors, but there’s a fair amount of that too. You know, it’s safe to say buildings need serious cleaning after 40 years.
So we enter our new News home in 2015 looking forward to a great year in a fine building. And yes, we are still planning on an open house…just give us a little time.
Happy new year, everyone!