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Greetings from Panera Bread - gotta get online wherever, whenever I can. Being at Panera's brings back memories of writing my book a few years ago. Most of it was written here, in this same Paneras. Seems like a lifetime ago, when in fact it was only 4 years ago. But coming back to the present, the all time consuming project - The House.


The house is about 2/3 done now and beginning to look liveable. The house seems to have a water curse though. I've already told you about the leaking chimney, but now that the den is all newly framed, insulated, dry walled, hardwood floored, and primed with paint, would you believe the walls in there leaked after the last rain?!? No, it never leaked once during all those processes, and yes it rained several times while all of that was being done, nope it had to wait to leak until all those were done.


And the sewage line backed up - twice during this project. Thank goodness we had the forethought to have them add a one way valve to the sewage outlet at the beginning of this project. You wouldn't believe the huge clump of tree roots they pulled out the pipe! Eewww!

The guys who did the dry wall install were pretty talented. Here is a picture of one of the dry-wallers walking down the steps in STILTS!

Here's a picture of the refrigerator being delivered. Luckily everything, even the Super Lazy Susan fit through the front door without a problem.

And trying to pick out paint colors was very challenging - especially for the kitchen/dining room. As you can see in this picture - I basically went through the colors of the rainbow - small areas painted in different colors on the wall - before finally deciding on a color by Benjamin Moore called Ice Cube Silver. I know my painter doesn't think we're going to like this once it's all done, but of all the colors we tested I definitely liked this the best. And it's not green - everyone wants a green kitchen now it seems.

That's about all for now. Blogspot only lets me upload 4 pictures per entry anyway. Hopefully the next pictures will be of the kitchen cabinets, counters and appliances all installed, the hardwood floors sanded and sealed, the tile floors in the bathrooms and the paint done! Wouldn't that be the bees knees?

Dad is finishing up his trip Down Under and is sad to see it coming to an end. But for his birthday he wants a book about his next travel adventure - Argentina! Something to look forward to!

Until later,
Poodle