In other news - the basement is coming along fairly well. Painting is nearly complete and then all we'll really need to do is the new flooring and refitting of the floorboards/molding around the room...and then comes phase two of the process - moving the stuff back into the room. Which I think Anna is going to love (because she'll finally have her laundry room back for use). The backyard grill covering has been placed on hold for the time being to allow us more time to focus on getting the internal reformatting completed - though the new patio furniture that Anna's family got for us on my birthday does make it clear that we're going to need to step up the presentation level so that it doesn't look to much like a mix-matched setup.
Speaking of my better half, her semester ended with (surprise, surprise) good grades and a short period in which she was comatose (I believe mostly to catch up from the lack of sleep that her finals had caused). I'm pretty sure that she's glad none-the-less to be finished with this particular bout of classes...even though, from what I could see, they were some of the more laid back professors (don't, however, take my word for it - email her to confirm this hypothesis).
As usual, be sure to drop us a line if you're going to be in our area of the country and need a place to stay and/or a warm meal with some friendly company!!
