So...you may have noticed in the post below that the house is looking less pink-and-scruffy than before. We haven't posted many pictures of the outside so far, but here's a little taste.
It started out looking like this:
In December the roof was replaced, which helped. But over the course of the past week, it has changed quite a bit:
As of Friday (with one day of finishing the job still to go next week) it looked like this:
And here it is today:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Speechless.
But as Steve said, no one was hurt, no one was home, and the damage could be worse. Still, we're SO CLOSE to being finished, and SO CLOSE to the bottom of our bank balance, that I'm starting to feel a little like these two:
In other dramatic news, we spent the weekend in North Carolina, and stopped off at a ranch with some friends who are thinking of getting married there later this year. The temperatures here have been very cold (for the South, of course), and it was 19 degrees F this afternoon when we were standing at the edge of a partially frozen pond with Rooney, our friends Justin and Anya, and their dog Obie.
Before any of us humans could register what was happening, Rooney walked out onto the ice and fell into the pond! He was fully submerged, then managed to doggie paddle himself back to the edge of the ice, but he got stuck there and couldn't get out again.
Steve is today's hero-- he calmly took of his shoes and jeans and jumped in after the dog, cutting his legs on the ice on his way in. Both came out freezing, with ice forming on fur and whiskers. We got them both bundled in dry things and put them back in the car with the heat on full blast...Rooney has been asleep ever since, and Steve has been-- oh yeah, assessing tree damage. No rest for the weary, I guess.
Here is our hero with his pup, enjoying the sofa and a heater:
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