When you’re buried under an enormous project, problems are everywhere.  Incremental becomes invisible because it becomes part of the scenery.  I’ve never had a project where these were more true than our new house.  Fixing a faucet can take three trips to the local Ace Hardware, plus at least as many quarter-mile walks out to the road to shut off the water.  Working on the steel casement windows is even more difficult; it seems no two of them are broken in the same way.  And taking photos to share our progress?  Half the time, the battery is dead and another third of the time, I manage to punch the wrong button and erase the images. 
Yep, with this project, it’s easy to focus on what went wrong.

But over the last couple of weeks, nature has forced me to literally see the flowers among the weeds.  Flowerbeds that were overgrown with prickly “stuff” last fall have begun to sprout daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths.  Look for the good things happening in your life; it beats dwelling on what is wrong.