Our first house guests!

Things are coming together = )

Ever since hanging up the baskets in the living room, we've made some other changes, moving furniture around, and the room feels much more spacious, homey and cozy. 

Two of Petey's co-workers came here today...drove in all that rain and flooding...it took them 2 and 1/2 hours to get here rather than the normal 1 hour. 

After eating my homemade pizza with fresh red peppers and these INCREDIBLE green olives from Costco (will post pic in a minute...it IS much easier to post pics from my phone!) and having snacks and coffee, I don't think they minded the extra drive-time too much.

We did a fair amount of cleaning and freshening up before they got here. They said they didn't smell cigarette smoke AT ALL when they walked in...YAY!!! SUCCESS!!

We had planned on going to the Palm Beach County Courthouse to look up our official plot before we start work on our garage. We spent the morning measuring and I got out the graph paper and started laying things out on it. LUV the graph paper  =))

Anyhow, Petey's co-worker, Tom, called and asked to borrow an old Windows laptop and wanted to come up and get it so we post-poned our trip to the courthouse.

Which worked out fine because it poured rain off and on most of the day so that would've been nasty to be driving in. And since it took them so much longer to get here than expected, I had lots of extra time to read my Bible and then crochet.

We just took the dogs for a neighborhood walk tonight instead of the trail walk. The trail walk is far for Buddy but he can handle the neighborhood walk. Plus Petey was having a good time examining everyone's carport/porch to get building ideas.

We've talked to a number of contractors and even scheduled appointments for 2 of them to come give us estimates but they never showed up. We've done this kind of work ourselves before so I was wanting us to build the structure but hire the cement floor poured.

We started watching do-it-yourself videos for pouring concrete and then Petey came up with some better ideas for flooring that would be easier and I liked them better anyhow.

But before we could head out to the courthouse, Tom called so we ended up staying home, rearranging, cleaning, spiffing and cooking.

We're thinking about going in the morning but Petey has to leave to go fly about 4pm so we'll have to see how things go after we get up. Plus we're supposed to have more rain through the morning...

Now that the living room has more space, I have the option of doing my Leslie Sansone Walk at Home DVDs again! I've missed her even though I do totally love the trails around here = )

Time for bed!