The long awaited

Ok, here is the long awaited post. I am going to try to put up some pictures too, but we will see. I guess I could have waited until tomorrow afternoon when the painters were completely finished, but this will be close enough. We like the colors...at least Lar says he does. I think he is just saying that so I don't make him pick something. That is the hardest part of this whole process...making decisions and picking everything. It's just that I have been looking for so long at so much I kind of go brain dead. I'm sure I have made some choices I would change a little, but nothing major yet. The overall look is what I'm after - so far. Just don't ask me what it is - I can't really describe it, but I have it in my head. I'm ready to get it out of my head and into reality so I can put something else in my head. No comments about that!

The rock is completely finished and Clee fixed my fireplace for me himself. He's the nicest man. We really like the painting crew too, led by Tim. He is most kind and does a real good job. He does not rush things, like some might. And he discussed things with me, explaining the pros and cons. I liked that too.

We had a little storm thru here this afternoon with winds around 50 mph. Our back porch didn't even get wet and the front porch only got a little wet. That's a good sign. We can sit out there and watch the rain next year. I think we will be doing that a lot from what I have observed so far.

Our friends who bought land near by are coming this week for a few days. We are looking forward to that. Some other friends from Pecos are probably coming as well, but just for the weekend. We are looking forward to seeing all of them. Tomorrow some of Lar's Andrews friends are coming for business and are coming by. And my cousins came by Saturday when I was next door at a Christmas party and I missed them. Lar was here so he showed them thru - just wish I hadn't been gone. So ya'll come back when I'm here, k? Our old neigbors from Andrews, who now live in Hamilton, came Saturday as well. She came to Cindy's party and he was entertained by Lar. You know that was fun.

I am going to have to make some trips to the cities next week to decide on yet some more stuff. This is hard on my disorganized brain. And it is a busy time of year as well. I think we are starting to get a little stir crazy here, but not too bad. I am feeling more and more like a big momma bear, however, and the need to hibernate is lurking in the back of my brain. I tried to start a couple of times but the poppa bear keeps waking me up. Ugh. Guess it will have to wait.

I'm going for now. Most of you need to post. You know who you are.

Ps – this thing didn’t want to post, so I saved it as a word doc. Glad I did that. I would not have been happy to rethink all of this.
Pss - Lar is at a "boys night out" playing dominoes and watching the game. Hmm.