Hello - the house is coming along and now we have a completed fireplace. Dave Trankle is doing our brick work. He is so pleasant to work with and has done an awesome job on the fireplace. It really makes the room. The weather wasn't the greatest this past week so they couldn't work much outside; but it is supposed to be clear this next week. They are hoping they will finish the rest of the brick work then.

The sheet rock was started on Tuesday, July 8 midday and finished late on Thursday, July 10. Boy what a mess there was when they got done with that. It was awful but I was going to be off on Friday so I worked along with Roger and Dave's boy getting it cleaned up. That boy reminds me a lot of Derek. He is a real hard working boy and will do just about anything to help you. When we got it all done we wrote him a check for $25 to thank him for all his help. He didn't want to accept it but we eventually forced him to take it teling him he didn't have to help us clean up the sheet rock that he had done that on his own.

Derek, my step son and wife Meredith's house is also coming along. Their siding has been put on and sheet rock was finished this past Tuesday. Roger and Derek went over there yesterday and cleaned the mess up at their house.

Well nothing more for now but will update as more news develops.