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Friday, June 1, 2012

New House, Part 2

"Our house, is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy 'cause of you...."

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

They said it would be finished by June 1, and, except for some trim in the back, largely invisible to the untrained eye, it is.

Even though I was here for most of it — shuddered as the old siding was ripped off,
got a headache when the new windows were pounded in, took our poor beside-himself dog Copper for walk after walk to get him out of the place as the work continued — it still seems miraculous that from this



 ... there came this.



Perhaps there was some magic fairy dust involved...