Relative Something

I guess we are in update mode. Roofers started arriving to our house before it was even light out yesterday morning. While we are in the midst of getting a new roof, it came to my attention (thank you, Patty) that my Relative Something posts might not be showing up the way they had before on readers’ devices, since a software update forced me to edit in block mode.

When I asked about the widgets in the right margin staying in view all the time, I learned it is related to the WordPress theme I’ve used since 2009, created before block editing became a thing.

Just like our aging roof shingles have forced us into updating, I’m feeling WordPress is succeeding in dragging me, kicking and screaming, into updating the theme I am using for this blog. I took a peek at some options yesterday while our roof was being rocked with banging staplers and scraping pry bars, and ran into more options than my old brain can process. 1,634 Block Themes, to be exact.

It’s going to take me some time to come up with a new look for Relative Something. I hope you will bear with me if you suddenly find things unrecognizable one morning. In the meantime, I’m limping along with this old theme in the new block editor mode.

We have a great crew of hard-working, good-humored guys roaring through the project with an artistic flair that makes it appear like a choreographed dance.

Cyndie and I were thrilled with how well Asher coped with all the chaos of activity and noise. Sure, he had his moments of barking at the arrival of strange vehicles and the number of people he wanted to check out, but he settled down and napped throughout the majority of the noisy day.

They made enough progress on the first day to guarantee they will be able to finish today, barring any unforeseen complications.

The weather certainly isn’t something they need to worry about. Warm sunshine and little wind made for ideal working conditions yesterday, and the forecast for today is expected to be more of the same. Great weather for working outside.

Not particularly inspiring to stay indoors and hunt through WordPress themes for something that I want to define me for the next how-ever-many-years I can make this last. Maybe I’ll settle into that exercise when things return to the usual serenity of our natural surroundings after the roofers are gone and a rainy day arrives to give me a good excuse to not be outside.

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