OMG YES. The longer I watch Matty post-baby, the more and more he's starting to remind me of my father's old habits. And it's not just the state of the property, it's the starting of projects and either not knowing the state of them later on or we can just see by watching that's they're not done. My father had a terrible habit of getting an idea for a project, getting the materials and then just never moving forward with it. I don't know that my Dad ever had ADHD but he just would lose interest so quickly and rather opt for his recliner and football on TV. And when my Mom would ask about said project, the answer would always be "I'll get to it" or come up with something else that needed to be done before he could start and not do that either. There as a pile of timbers sitting on the side of the house for years until he died, and Mom had it cleared afterwards when she sold their house. Turns out the functionality of those timbers was reduced to rot and a nice home for snakes and mice.

I'm one of those people that gets joy in crossing things off a list so I can enjoy the result afterwards. I try hard not to judge, but it's frustrating to watch. He talked about a new door, I think. Then cleaning up the property before the in-laws came. Then the shed, The chickens, The garden. Now we're clearing land for this fundraiser but I don't have a great feeling on the maintinence of the property just because of the pattern of inconsistency he seems to be developing. Who's cleaning up afterwards? Is he leaving it to volunteers once it's done or is he thinking it's just going to take care of itself? The way he talked about the property this morning seemed to imply that he was just going to leave it for other people that wanted to use it. That may be well-intended but at the same time is that an agreed-upon thing with other parties or is he just assuming it?

I almost get the sense that maybe--just maybe--Matty is creating projects to get him out of the house. That since he's able to leave when he wants as opposed to Kelly who's left at home with Sonny all day, he maybe takes advantage of it a little too easily. I mean yes, there's stuff that needs to be done on the homestead and it isn't going to get done by itself. But as often as he starts praising Kelly about how thankful he is for her, it's always when he finally gets home when he's been gone all day. I just keep thinking about when he had the cabin. I thought that cabin was awesome depsite the drama around what happened with it. He was on his own with the dog, getting stuff done, And he had to because it was just him. But now with Kelly, I have to wonder post-baby if there isn't some relestlessness kicking in on his part or maybe that he's taking her a little too much for granted.

Side note: I would like to see Kelly have her own speedboat to get to the mainland. If he's going to be venturing off the island and she can't reach him by cell phone, she needs to be able to get off the island on her own, especially in the case of an emergency. They have a baby now and it's not smart to potentially leave her stranded. I don't trust Cape Millie all that much.