Apologies to the Elephant

Large, somewhat unruly, often overwhelming animals make for an easy target.  So I’ll use the metonym again and repeat what a good friend of mine used to say when we were hard at work trying to finish a project.  Donald said, “You can’t eat the whole elephant in one bite.”

So we would break the project [elephant] into pieces and work [eat] it one piece [toe] at a time.  Your house project is exactly the same.  It is big, even when it’s small.  And it is complicated, especially if it is supposed to be simple.  There are a lot of parts and trades to coordinate.  Take the parts in pieces and only work on resolving one thing at a time.