It is late on Friday night and Gary and I just got home from our usual 'date night' where we went to Jalisco's and then went to see 'Man of the Year' with Robin Williams. Not too bad. It got awful reviews but we enjoyed it. It is definitely a dramedy - if you are thinking that it is a laugh out loud riot for 2 hours, you will be disappointed. It is three parts; comedy, drama and thriller.

Anyway, the last couple of days have seen some interesting changes in the remodel. Robert, Bill and Travis were here on Thursday to start work on framing up the garage (in the rain), while some guys finished up the walls in the kitchen in preperation of texturing on Friday. And boy did it rain yesterday. I cannot believe that Ideal Building stuck it out as long as they did. But by the end of the day, two of the three walls were up on the new garage.

However, as I drove down the driveway I noticed that the new East facing window seemed to be a little higher that I thought it would be. I stepped into the new garage are and looked at the window from the inside and sure enough, the bottom of the window was at my chin. So I went in and talked to Gary about it.

Gary felt the same way and had already emailed Robert to find out why it was raised. Robert said that he and Bill talked and they felt it would look better esthetically from the outside if it was placed higher. And although that may be right, we really wanted it low enough that we could look out when working at the work bench. Therefore Gary asked if they could move it before they went much farther with framing.

So this morning, Bll was here by the time Gary got home from the gym and was working on the rest of the framing. They talked about the location and Bill moved the window to a place that Gary and I both feel is right. It's great to have a relationship with Robert and Bill that we can talk about things and if we have a concern that it will be addressed. But the day didn't end there. Due to the amount of rain over the last couple of days, the amount of soft dirt around the yard and that we no longer have a lot of ivy in the yard - a large amount of dirt spilled down from our yard and into Kim and Mark's. Kim talked to Gary about it and Bill had Travis work on cleaning this up and put up some new barriers to protect any more mud slides into their yard.

After all that, the rest of the framing was completed outside and all the texture has been applied to the kitchen, laundry room (where the patch was replaced) and in some of the master bathroom. It is looking good and next week we should see some of the roof start to take shape. Our project for this weekend is to move the TV room into the Formal Living Room and Garage in preperation for painting which starts on Monday.