Getting show-ready is not that much fun, but it is necessary.

That is how my wholesale idea felt.  I had this idea, but it needed to follow me around for a little while.  I needed to bundle it up on rainy days and feed it chicken soup.  I had to carry it over the stormy seas of my own self-doubt. 

I am sitting in my dining room, looking into the living room where the folding table, legs now fully extended and upright, has my unfinished work from yesterday, which is still under the large, roughly cut plastic

Getting in the flow of working.