You just never know

We brought a carryon. It's filled with over flow items from luggage too heavy.

He brought...a drum?

A bucket?

A snake?

He's carrying it as if it weighs 75 lbs!!

Is your cat on Facebook?

Teddy insists on checking his Facebook status every night.

Close but not quite

Said my friend with the confidence of Dr. Oz touting the importance of his newest breakthrough, during a break at conference "when I'm at these things I really try to liquidate."

Huh?

You mean hydrate?

Well, yeah. 

The Drayer Update

It's starting to come together, Pepper. It's starting to come together. 

I have been out of town since Sunday night, traveling for work. Needless to say it's been hard to be away while all of the fun progress is taking place. Nevertheless, Sweet Sarah has faithfully sent picture updates each evening.   

And because I'm blogging from my phone there will only be pictures, no commentary. (I know. I know, TOTALLY  disappointing. But be patient dear reader, I'll make room for more snarky parenthetical comments in the days to come. )

These pictures are from Monday thru yesterday. Pretty impressive. 

Recipe substitution

Yeah, that moment when you're jonesin' for your own seasonal pumpkin cookies. And you realize you only have whole wheat flour so you bake them anyway. And you read online you should cut back on the flour a bit. But you cut back too much.

Yeah.....

So now this......

They taste good. They look bad.

The best kind of mail

I got these two beauties in the mail today. Look at those two, beautiful smiling faces!

All four of my nieces and nephews have grown so fast. These two I don't get to see very often since they live on the west coast. But there really is something different about a family connection.

And this? This just made my day.

The Drayer: We have a porch!

This is TWO days work.  They finished roofing this morning (all but the ridge vent).  I'm pretty sure our neighbors were thrilled with the sound of a compressor starting at 8:15 AM on a crisp, fall Saturday morn.  Nothing makes you want to stay snuggled in your cozy bed than the sound of an air gun going through shingles!  [yeah, scoring no points for The Drayer]

The infrastructure is finished.  And the landscaping and hardscaping work is on hold until the porch is finished.  The space is just too small for two crews to be working.  Once they get a few more things done on the porch, they'll lay the patio, install the table and build the steps to the porch.  

It's getting VERY exciting!

So here they are:

The view from inside the family room

The driveway side.
The day they got this much done we were both thinking,
"wow!  Looks good!  Nice work.  [la, la, la la.  Go into the house, resume other duties. etc.  etc.]

This morning it occurred to me I hadn't looked at it from down by the garage.  I called Sarah out, once I realized the view.  Exact quote, "Holy sh$#!!!! What have we done?!"
Ummm, yeah.  It looks BIG from here.  The interesting part about this entire project is we will actually GAIN grassy knoll [again, not sure it'll be a knoll, but it sounds good.  Don't judge.]
IKEA would be proud.  We are eeking out EVERY inch of usable space in this city land locked yard.

I like this view.  Very zen like.
It makes you want to wander in and see what else is back there.

Looks cabin like, no?