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...but rue the ones in SF this week. Alas, construction has stopped. We have this fine plastic sheet over the hole in the wall: And this fine window & flooring in the basement: All that's happened this week is that I finished anchoring the tall bookcases to the walls. Riveting material for a blog, I know. The forecast says rain through Monday. Keep your fingers crossed for us -- we are hoping to at least have the window in by next Friday, before a certain someone arrives: p.s. If you don't know the reference in the title, or even if you do & just feel like singing your heart out (amanda & adrienne & jonny), click here !

Today, I came home to find this encouraging sight: No Blue X...this is promising! A floor! We have a floor! And they've started putting in the insulation! Going outside, it's clear that Bunkport & Company have made more progress out there: They removed an overhang that came down about 6 inches for no particular reason. I drew in the red line to show where it used to come down to, & put in a star to show where friends over 5'6" used to hit their heads coming down the stairs. Insulation being put into the floor. Three cheers for warm toes! The wall on the outside of the weird little storage room is almost finished being rebuilt, with the posts now inside. See below for what it looked like the other day. Recall that the posts holding up The Treehouse were originally on the outside of this wall. Resting on those bricks. Electrical, the new window, & the rest of the insulation are all slated to happen tomorrow, with sheetrock being slated to go in the following ...

Great news! The pea plants have broken through the soil! And even better, all 17 plants have sprouted -- none of them were dug up by raccoons after all! Here they are for your approval, ranked in order of demonstrated intelligence & essential beauty: Lastly, as a reward for indulging my joke & scrolling through basically 17 photos of dirt (because the pea shoots are mostly too small to capture on this camera), here is the latest photo of our out of control roses:

Bunkport & Company have been very busy this week. I had to go out of town for work half the week, so Adrienne was kind enough to snap some photos of what they were up to for all of us. Mixing cement. As it turns out, concrete makes a much sturdier foundation than loose landscaping bricks. One of the old floor joists takes a turn at supporting the floorless Treehouse. This looks blurry, yet promising. I got back in on Wednesday night. Here is what I found when I woke up Thursday morning: Where's the window? This contraption looks...innovative. Ok, I kid, but I'm sure all of these 2"x4"s are actually sturdier than that old joist. Clever repurposing of one of the random concrete footings that were lying around the yard. Ok, now we're talking. During the project, Bunkport & Company discovered that there was a bit of a pressing issue in the kitchen supports, adjacent to the supports for the Treehouse. Being very clever, he figured out a way to kill two birds wi...