With the pipe providing him the needed motivation to at least gather a game plan in his mind, he started down the path in front of the Bar itself. His boots kicked at large weeds with each step as they fell under his advance. The cobble road beneath his feet was torn to pieces and overgrown, causing his ankles to attempt to roll themselves out from under him. Large tree branches had fallen over parts of the trail blocking vehicle traffic to the establishment and providing barriers where blown debris can gather.
After walking the path a few times and making some mental notes on how to tackle this road issue, he returned to the front of the building and looked it over. The paint had been peeling off for the past few years in his absence, revealing wood that had once been the best quality lumber he could of purchased. All that was showing through the mask of once protective color is a shadow of former, dried out glory. The elements had proven the victor in the battle of time on all faces of the building, which would require extensive repair and board replacement.
The roof itself was borderline laughable in how screwed it was in comparison to the rest of the facility. Repairing a road, cleaning an interior, mold removal, all sounded and felt like a batter chore to the old man than climbing onto a rickety hole filled roof and rebuilding it from one corner to the next.
The costs started to roll through his head, his knowledge of local lumber mills and possible labor companies ticked like a calculator working an intricate math problem. The factor that stopped this equation however was one thing: time. He had been gone for over four years, overseas aiding a research team. These places he once knew may be gone or have changed so much that they are no longer the market leader. It became apparent that his once vibrant network of resources and information was for the first time in his life wrong and incorrect.
As the feeling of a stress migraine coming on the man sat himself back down on the angry step, and repacked his pipe.