A floor, walls (and a wacko dog)!

Haven't done much updating lately, but you can watch the progress on our house at http://picasaweb.google.com/vickileith/EmeraldIsleGreersFerry. Took Tess over one day when they had put some of the floor joists up. Now there is NOTHING under these...except the ground which was 6 feet or so below! They are spaced something like 16" apart (or whatever they are supposed to be) and Tess is trying to walk on them! Of course, we didn't let her get too far because more than likely one of us would have had to go "rescue" her! We took her down more than once, but she kept on trying to cross them! The good thing was she didn't see the guys walking on them or she would have really been trying to walk across them!

I think it was the same day when she got "trapped" underneath! She was so funny! Barking and barking because she couldn't find the "door" to get out! The sides are still open above the block so she could see out, but she wouldn't jump out that way! She could see us up above, but couldn't figure how to get out of there! I finally had to go down and show her where the doorway was!

We left for California shortly after the first picture was taken. To say that we were disappointed when we returned is an understatement since very little had been accomplished. We were gone for two weeks and all that was done was the floor was laid and the walls were marked on the floor. Once we got home, however they started working on the house again. Not sure how long that will last since we left for Elkhart, IN on Friday! Before we left though...they had begun putting up some walls! It was pretty exciting to see the walls going up! Sure makes it seem more "real"! Don "helped" with standing up two of the walls! I told him that they were going to end up charging

us more when he was in there offering his help! :-)

Between the time that we got back to Greers Ferry and left for Elkhart we spent a day on the lake with Kim, Tim and Ashleigh - in OUR boat!! After more than two years out of the water and a few $$ making sure everything worked right we had a fun day out on the

water! Of course, you always have your doubts if it will run or even start, and after Don fired it up it seemed a little rough, but soon it was just like it always was! Ashleigh and I had a great time in the water! At first she kept telling me "don't let go" but after a little while she was swimming between Tim and I and didn't want anyone holding on to her at all! The water is so clear and felt so good! :-)