We’ve been away for a while. We’ve had a pretty rough winter. Those of you who read this blog might remember that my mom passed away in September 2007. We had a memorial service for her in November which was not without its’ family drama.
Just as we were starting to get our bearings, Dennis sister, Sue, passed away on Christmas Eve. She had battled pancreatic cancer for several years. She did amazingly well for a very long time. Then just before Christmas, she fell ill and was gone within a week.
The winter in Ohio has been, ah, dreary. We’ve had snow on the ground most of the winter. It’s been cold and damp then colder and damper. I’ve been suffering from cabin fever to the point I’ve considered packing a toothbrush and leaving. For.good. With my luck, I’d get stuck in a stinkin’ snowdrift.
With all that out of the way, I’ll say this. We haven’t been doing nothing around here. We haven’t been doing as much as we’d like, but we haven’t been doing nothing.
In my next post, I’ll start the story of how we went from this:
to this:
I prefer to think of it not as a deck, but as a porch. A big porch.
