After a busy summer, things are starting to settle down a bit. I decided I would try starting a blog - so far my experimenting with it has not been entirely successful. Maybe with practice it will get better! I have managed to erase my entire post once, then the next time it seemed to disappear into thin air... we will see if I can successfully manage to get something on where you can see pictures of what has been going on around here.

Dave has been busy all summer working mostly on getting the exterior of the house finished - siding, gutters, etc. Except for a little caulking, it is done now. There were lots of little details I would have just left as they were, but he was diligent to get the job completed! You can see from the pictures a little further on down the page that there has been great improvement. We can't call it the "pink house" any more, as all the pink has been covered up. (Well, we left just a tiny bit of pink up under one eve for a reminder of how it used to look!)
Glenn got in on helping Dave with the siding project.
Jeff, Lisa, Larkin, Clayton and Allison
How our house looks now - compared with
how it looked a year ago.