My late wife, Uyen, and I constructed our house (with the help of many dear friends) using cash. We didn’t secure a construction loan, which provided us with more freedom relative to a timeline for finishing the house. But, given that, we struck a deal with each other when we broke ground to build our house in the late summer of 1990: we would not move into the new house until we had completely finished every room.
I
didn’t quite hold up my end of that deal. One small thing remained undone. I
never applied the trim to cover the upper track of the bi-fold door in the
closet just inside the garage entry—a detail unnoticed by everyone but me.
Yesterday, thirty-five years late, I finally cut and nailed that last piece of
trim in place.
Remember
what Neil Armstrong said when he took his first step on the Moon? This feels a
little like that. A small big thing.
I’m
sharing photographs of that final piece of trim.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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