Okay, so the true posting of this data is 11/11/08 and I am trying feaverishly to catch everyone up to speed on what is happening on Polley Road -- in so many ways. It is with a heavy heart and optimistic spirit that I share that Sean and I are now divorced. It has been a difficult couple of months for us and for Madeleine, and I hope that time will heal us all. My thanks go out to Sean and his family for helping me get this project off the ground; kind of bittersweet in a way that it began in one way and will finish in another, but again, time will heal and I know the future holds great things for all of us. So, now that I am able to tackle all of this again, away we go!

I can't tell you the exact date the well was drilled, but it got done - loudly and messy, those things are for sure. It had been an amazingly dry end of summer gearing up for fall, and they day they showed up to drill the well it had already been raining for hours. So, as you can imagine the whole show was muddy and dirty -- I went over to the neighbors to survey the damage from their vantage point; not pretty from any angle! They completed it within one day and capped it off until they are ready to tap into it and shut down the existing well.

The next phase was adding the new trusses to raise the roof pitch, provide vaulted ceilings in the new spaces and get this project under roof! I didn't realize they would have to cut holes into the house in order to secure the new trusses to the structure, so needless to say I didn't cover anything up that day they came to begin the process. Though they did offer to clean up the mess, I was too shocked to even let them in to do it. There were chuncks of wood laying inside the house nestled into the piles of sawdust that also were laying inside the house, on the furniture, on the stove, and inside lots of nooks and crannies I didn't even know existed. It was a sight! One of those sights that you have to laugh at because crying would be a waste of time and you have to use your time wisely when you are cleaning up a mess of this magnitude. Yes, birds did find the time to explore their new "bird house", but I am happy to report that each time I heard one of my new friends enter the house, they did exit just as quickly and I didn't have to chase them around or clean up after them, either. Sigh....