Carp-e-Diem !

I have been taking lots of pictures of the outside, so I thought it would be a good time to get some footage of the inside. I give a very quick tour of the new construction.

Here is a video I shot while I walked around the block. Below are some exterior shots. We have had the house body and trim painted and the rain gutters put up.

South Side

West Side

NorthEast Corner

East side from inside the backyard

We’re in quite a winter storm this week. Yesterday we had 2 hours of solid lightning and booming thunder. Today, there was a 20 minute set of fiercely heavy rain, followed by 5 solid minutes of HAIL. Not a bit here and there, but basically a crazy hail dumping. Max thought it was great fun.

This was just so darn pretty I had to put it up for posterity.

Poppa is having a rough time lately. This latest incident has me thinking he needs to have some remedial ‘safe use of crowbar’ training. He was pulling some nails out at head height and the crowbar slipped off the head of the nail and the other end of crowbar popped Poppa right above the eye. Oh boy. Not to be out done, I also sustained an injury. I have a gnarly splinter in my thumb that won’t come out. It must be 1/32 of an inch long! I have placed the picture of Poppa ‘below the fold’ so if you don’t want to see it, you can close your web browser now. Scroll down for the picture of Poppa. There is no picture of my splinter.

Are you sure?

Crowbar: 1 Poppa: 0