Hello everyone, It has been a week since I last posted. We did get our trusses set on Monday May 5 and decking finished on Tuesday. Then the roofers arrived on Wednesday May 7. We were so excited to see them arrive and hoped they could get the roof on before it was to rain that day but unfortunately it did not happen. They nearly did except for a small portion on the back corner of the garage and the ridge cap. It continued to rain on through Thursday and the roofers didn't return until Friday starting at 6:30 am only to be rained out again at 9:30 am. They were able to finish the rest of the roof and mostl of the ridge cap but not all so I guess we will see them back sometime this next week to finish it off.

Roger and I took a day trip away from it all to go to St Louis on Thursday for our Cabela's trip we were needing to make. We needed to pick out our chandelier for over the dining room table and 2 lamps for the living room. We picked out a really pretty one for the dining room. It has 6 shades with 4 wooden canoes leaned up to the center. I believe it will carry on the outdoor theme we are taking in the living room on into the dining room/kitchen area. We also found the 2 lamps we wanted for the living room. They both look like metal sculpted art work - one is a deer and the other a turkey. Camo one of our 5 daschunds came along with us on the trip. We had her in the shopping cart for a little bit but quickly realized she was too much to handle and shop like we wanted so we decided to kennel her at the customer service desk. Shortly later I took a break to go to the bathroom which are right next to customer service to find the clerks had her out letting her run around beneath their feet while they worked. They said she wasn't to partial to the kennel and they just couldn't stand seeing her whine like she was. Well Roger and I figured they owed us after how much money we spent there so we didn't mind much either.

We were looking for a gun safe there at Cabela's and we looked real hard at one Roger fell in love with before but after finding how much money it would cost to have it deliver it we decided to look for deligently at Bucheit's down home where we had looked at before since they sold the same brand safe, "Liberty". So we stopped by on our way through Perryville. Well sure enough they had 2 of the exact same safe he wanted in their warehouse but in green instead of grey. It holds 41 guns. So we went to look and Roger liked it so I put it on layaway for him. He was so excited and later said he didn't realize I was going to put a gun safe on layaway for him. I told him I thought he deserved it.

Well while we were up in St Louis Tim and Jeff came and put up nearly all the interior walls. It was so exciting to see the change when we got home. It made it so much easier to visualize how the rooms were looking and starting to take shape. Roger and I went over about 6:30 pm and cleaned up around the place burning trash and relaxing in 2 lawn chairs in the opening of one of the windows in the front room watching the bonfire. While we were visting Roger told me something that Tim, our builder asked him a few days that teared me up. Tim said to Roger, "Is it starting to look like Dad's house" and Roger said, "Yes it is". Then Tim said, "No it isn't it is looking like your house." Then there I teared up stood up putting my hands on Rogers knees starting to tear up and told him, "Thanks again for everything, you do not know much I appreciate this house and look forward to spending several years to come with him in it." For those of you who do not know we are replicating a house just like Tim's dad's house.

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