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I haven't written in some time and I have no excuse.  NO EXCUSE!!!  I could make up one.  I could blame Hurricane Sandy or that I'm too busy decorating the newly rebuilt house or I was kidnapped by elves and just now managed to gnaw my way through the ropes that held me.

Anyway.... I'M HERE NOW!!!

The house is beautiful.  The colors are wonderful even if it is somewhat like living in a pinata.  We didn't buy a whole lot of furniture... truthfully the house is so small there isn't any room for a lot of furniture.  I still haven't found the perfect thing for the living room wall tho finding a throw for the back of the couch has taken away the turd look of it.  Did look like that in a store but there in my peach living room it was like Godzilla took a dump in my living room.  The throw helps

I've also discovered wall decals and if I'm not careful the house will be covered with them but how can I resist?  STICKERS for WALLS!!!  My favorite I think is the little blue fairy door I got from Wilson Graphics on Etsy.  There are decals in the kitchen and in the eat in kitchen part and in the living room, hall, bedrooms and the craft room. I'm not slapping up any old thing, I think this through carefully.

This is all new to me.  I never put together a house before.  Even when we first got married we each had bits of furniture that followed us through the years.  Nothing matched and there was so much of it so this has been rather hard for me.  I am so afraid of making a mistake even if it is my own home.  Now that I have the last of the Ikea Furniture assembled I may take a crack at photographing the whole house.

We have a new deck out back that reminds me of a tree house.  It really isn't up that high but whenever I am on it I think tree house.  It's a custom built deck and so sturdy I think  it could withstand almost anything.

We got really lucky with our contractor.  I've heard all kind of dreadful contractor stories but our rebuild went fairly easily.  Our contractor had told us early on that he rarely got the chance to rebuild from the ground up... so to speak.  We had our walls from the old house but everything else was replaced including roof.  Boy is this house built solidly.  During Hurricane Sandy we didn't wobble or shimmy or shiver or shake.  The walls didn't rattle.  The only sound from outside was one of those peculiar moaning wind type of sounds that always makes me think of winter snowstorms.  We lost power and I had problems with the sump pump but the contractor talked me through what I needed to do and we stayed nice and dry.  We even got a generator with left over house contents money and when the neighborhood was out we had fridges, sump pump, a lamnp and TV and Internet and were even able to share some of our electricity with the best neighbors in the world when the pull string on their generator broke. 

The dogs are thrilled with their new home.  They love the idea of all those doors and while they may go out the front door, we never really know which door they will want to come in.  There is even a doggy door in the basement door but Kali is the only one who uses it.  Charlie will go through it if I hold the flap open but nothing stops Kali.  She'll be in the house, hear Charlie bark then she's off mumbling to herself as she runs downstairs and out the door.  When she comes in, she comes to find one of us and grins at us until we tell her how clever she is and then she settles down, Charlie barks and off she goes again.

Charlie is an outdoorsy sort of dog.  He didn't even mind going out into the hurricane and would have been quite content to sit on the porch in the driving rain.  Nasty us made him come in where it was dry.  He's jsut lucky I didn't make him put on a sweater or a rain coat.  What Charlie loves as much as sitting on the porch is sitting on his mound.  We had dirt delivered to landscape around the base of the house to draw rain water away from the house instead of into the basement.  A huge pile was delivered, spread about and still there was a pile.  Eventually we had the pile moved to the front of the house under a tree and Charlie just adores the mound.  He stands on the mound, sits on the mound and yesterday lounged on the mound.  I'm sure if it snows he'll be sitting on the mound in the snow.  Of course it looks rather odd to have a pile of dirt in front of the house for the dog but well.... it's us.  Why wouldn't we have a mound of dirt for our dog?

So that;s about it for now.  Stay odd my friends.