The big bang theory

After a month of jet-setting, it seemed like there was a lack of events to write about.  Where has the month gone?  What have we been doing?

Oh yeah, destruction.  If you're going to clean up, you've first got to make a mess.  If you want to create something grandiose, you better be prepared for the chaos that comes with it. You look at people with their beautiful houses and forget the ugly, dirty months of work that it took to get there.  You see families with their wide-eyed, waving babies and can ignore the fact that a body had to change beyond recognition to get there, sleep had to be lost to maintain.

So here's the plan:

1. Finish the deck on the sauna, laying flooring in the changeroom, painting the outside.  "Small" jobs that will create a safe haven while the house is lifted from its ashes nearby.
2. Finish demolishing the office.  The only spot in the house that we had painted, layed flooring.  My bright, creative space that had frost piling up in the corners during the winter as the draft coming up from the floor whistled into the house.  Steve happily took the sledghammer and reciprocating saw to it yesterday...the "pimple" on our house.
3. Break for lunch.
4. Lift the whole (remaining) house, pour a ribbon foundation under the kitchen and where the future addition will go (clothesline side).  The kitchen is currently sitting on rotting, untreated 2x6.  Ignorance was bliss and made for a happy sales transaction four years ago.
5. Consult those people wiser and more experienced than us to ok our house plans.  We've come to a consensus on many ideas, many drafts of drawings.  Now we need people to make sure we stay realistic.  Fortunately, retirement row and the town of The Pas is full of them.

I leave you with Holmsian wisdom.  "Make it right."
ps.  Steve's arm muscles keep getting bigger.