It has been a few days since we last posted but that is due to a two day break in work at the house. Abbey and Lucy stayed home from Doggie Day Care and I am sure enjoyed the break from having to be social with 30 other dogs.

Wednesday and Thursday were off days and then on Friday, Ideal Building returned to put up the trusses on the garage. Considering how big and bulky these things are Gary says they went up pretty fast. By early afternoon they were up and in place.

As you can see from both pictures, the garage is really taking shape and the two windows in the new garage have been cut out. Next week - they will continue on the garage with tearing out the affected shingles before connecting the trusses to the existing garage.

On Friday night, instead of our usual dinner and a movie we did dinner and SHOPPING. We went looking for lights to hang over our new eating bar and after looking at various styles of lights we settled on three hanging pendant lights. The glass lamp is acorn shaped and has a burnt orange hue which we think will work well with the new look of the kitchen. Gary snapped this shot as I was trying to get a better idea of what the light will look like over the bar.

I am sitting here at the computer waiting for some interested buyers for our stove top and oven to arrive. I hope they are interested as we would like to get these sold and out of the garage. And who knows, maybe they will take the microwave as a bonus! (the handle broke off during the demolition so it isn't really sellable unless someone wants to try and fix it.

Gary is spending the day at a conference for one of his clients and I will be taking our area rugs out to be dry cleaned. Tonight I have a concert with the BEARatones and then tomorrow Gary and I will move out everything in the faux kitchen in preperation for next week's work on the hardwoods and baseboards etc.