December 9,2008

I realize it's been a long time for me to post two days in a row. I had to share this picture. John had an MRI on Sunday and needed to be very relaxed for the procedure. Well as you can see Zanex worked just fine. He slept for 20 hours! Now we await the results.

Sunday December 7,2008

What a great week. There were several celebrations of rebuilding and giving thanks. Friday was our Fired Up Sisters Christmas party so we finally have a group picture. Then on Saturday we had a Christmas event in Ramona. I've been gathering vintage decorations for the past month. It was well worth the effort when I witnessed several fire survivors find the items they once had. I too was the recipient of a found treasure. Two of my damaged angels now have new replacements, but I can't give up the old ones.

Thanksgiving 2008

We celebrated our Thanksgiving in San Francisco with family. John and I drove up on Wednesday. Our sons and daughter-in-law went to the desert camping. We also celebrated my in-laws 44th wedding anniversary. All in all a lot to be thankful for. On our drive north we passed through a recently fire devastated area. We saw families sifting through the ashes that were once their home. Our hearts ached for them. I can't wait to be putting building progress photos on this site.

November 24, 2008

Well, if I can't have a life size house I can have some of my Christmas village houses back. I've been searching for them on Ebay. I have found a few of the ones I had. I had been collecting them and all the accessories for over 30 years. I also located the felt kits to remake John and Sam's Christmas stockings. They were almost 20 years old. I was so happy to find them. I'll be making them while in Buffalo for Christmas. The house plan is still with the structural engineer. No update yet.

Nov. 17th 2008

Our floor plan is finally done. We are sending it to the engineer this week. Another one of my "Fired Up Sisters" had a frame signing party. It's good to see progress even if it's not ours. The puppy is Rupert, Sam and Justine's dog. He likes to sit in the truck and wait for them to come back when he is staying with us for the day.

November 10, 2008

We celebrated Sam's half birthday on Election Day. He's 21 1/2.

We're back to the drawing board. Our neighbor John helped us plot the house on the pad. It didn't fit well. We have to make changes to the patio and garage to make it fit right. Better now than later. Then off to the draftsman then engineering. It seems like forever. It has already rained quite a bit and we get the "lake effect" around the trailers. We need more pallets to walk on so we don't sink into the mud.

Halloween 2008

Aren't we a lovely bunch? We lost our wedding portrait in the house fire so we've created another one. First our family photo then our wedding party. We've got the 3 banditos as groomsmen and the 3 madonnas as bridesmaids. Of course the biker and catwoman as best man and maid of honor.