Tra La

Going to post house newz here from now on. I don't want to be a pest to my big list. So here goes.

The house may be rebuilt sooner because Michael and I have our minds made up on what we want and don't want and aren't nitpicking over knobs and grains and the like. In fact, I have already picked out my kitchen cabinets as well as the color of the counter tops. I don't want stone, laminate is fine with me. Josh and a buddy will be doing our floors so I don't have to pick the color right away but I know what I want. I also have the kitchen wall color picked out and I thought I had the rest of the rooms but Michael didn't like the green I chose for the living room and wanted the bedroom peach instead. So I'll put the green in my bedroom and Michael can choose the color for his. (we both snore terribly and keep each other awake so separate bedrooms work for us) Michael said he wanted maroon walls. I told him it would look like living inside a mouth. Add white valances on the top and bottom and they would look like teeth and he'd really be living in a mouth.

There will be ceiling fans in all rooms and a deck, that we never had before and will have to be built at an odd angle to accomodate the outside steps to the basement. There will be a new roof, but we have to pay for that but we should have money left over from contents. There will be a dog door in the basement and a bay window for them in the living room because the dogz have fallen in love with the bay window in the rental house and sleep sprawled across the sill like gigantic cats.

I get a BIG closet in the craft room and the builder will even build me some shelves. I'm thinking a light turquoise for that room but haven't decided for certain.

Oh and did I tell you that the front and back will be landscaped close to the house? Can you imagine? Now I just have to wait for it all to be done.

Another bit of good new is that the builder said that the tear it all away in the interior guys who dismantled walls etc, worked faster than he had planned and that is why we may be back home sooner. Good. My dogz need to run

We took the dogz home on Saturday to let them run and, hopefully, poop them out. No sooner were we in the yard when the little dog next door told his people that the dogz were here and he had to GO!! Eventually little dog next door came over with his mother and he was beside himseld with joy. Little dog next door is a shi tzu mix and has always seemed undoglike to me. He seems a solemn little soul who would rather view life than jump into it and get his paws muddy. Boy was I wrong. Little dog next door teased Charlie into playing iwth whimpers and that upraised butt posture that means come on and play. Little dog next door had never been in my yard before, nor in our bamboo and he had a grand time. Then when he was done, he simply went home, with me following him so no one hit him with a car. Besides, I also had to open the gate for him. We're thinking now that we should but a gate in the fence between us, so the dogs can visit back and forth. Kali was so excited to see the next door neighbor that she peed herself and Charlie used his girl voice as he proclaimed his love. Yep, a gate ought to do it. So that's where we are now. I'm not going to get my hopes us about us getting into the house sooner than we thought, tho it is hard to not get excited. All I know is that I want to go HOME.