AND, the ceiling is complete!!!

Well, here we go!  Jim and I, once again, did our civic duty and were poll watchers for the midterm elections at the Provo Library.  It was pretty intense...  There are strict rules and cameras to make sure you abide with these rules, and this year was no different... except the patrons were a little high strung this year.  So, many people were turned away because they wanted to vote AFTER the polls closed.  Where the polling box is located, there are three streets to the entrance, and we had lineups at all three roads... so, it was a little tense. At one point, we had Provo Police come back us up, and a Sheriff's Deputy... People were not happy with us.  This is, I believe, the 5th time we have worked the elections - it's kinda our thing.  Giggle.

We were having a problem with the cutlery draw at the cabin - too many things and not enough spaces.  Jim saw this organizer and picked it up... and, it fits all the cutlery a whole lot better!

Usually when Jim goes to the cabin, he packs the truck with boxes... lots of boxes... this trip was no exception... except, there were boxes not just in the back seat, but up beside him... I don't think he likes doing this, but, I'm really trying to downsize... and this is stuff I just want to keep...

The work on the ceiling continues.  The boys didn't get it totally completed last time, but this week is going to be different.  This is really a tricky place to get the last piece of wood... not just with height, but with fitting a small piece...

And, tada!!!  The great room ceiling is completed!  It looks beautiful.

And, the repair work on the water line is just about completed.  Our contractor has had a whole lot of family responsibilities, so we got put off until this coming Monday.  He got a little dirt put over the repaired line just to make sure it doesn't freeze, but needs to come back and put in a covering of rock and then more dirt.  

Jim found this clock - kinda old school, but it fits with the cabin... kind of rustic and woodsie... It was put above the main doors going into the great room.  (And, no, I didn't make the stained glass on the door... It's a plastic covering so nobody can peer into the cabin when we aren't there...)

I am really not sure what to call this... I'll have to ask Jim, but I think it's a support for a corbel...  I'll ask... Well, I asked, and he says, "It's actually the transition from the loft bathroom roof to the roofline of the cabin.  The loft has a dormer, not a corbel..."  My bad...

And, with the ceiling being completed, the work on the sheetrock on the prow has started... Here's the left side of the room....

And, here's the right side of the window....  Little by little, it will all get done.

And, here's one more piece...

And, I don't know what got into Jim this past week... But, he was buying different things for the cabin.  This seat going into the main level shower...  I think it's great...  Thank goodness Jim is getting into the shopping mode.  Warms my heart.

Again, we're making amazing progress and I am ready for Jim to come home for a couple of days. Our schedules are evolving and Jim is staying away for less time, and spending a little more time at home.  In our almost 20 years of marriage, he travelled a whole lot with work, (the Dubai trip was the longest and the worst) and I missed him terribly.  Now, neither one of us really wants to be apart... I kinda like him being home.  So, Jim has been going to the cabin for a week to ten days, and then coming home for  a little bit.  It's a better plan.

I read the most beautiful little blurb the other day... I sent this to Jim.. it's a little long, but it makes me smile.... Here goes:

In English, they say, "I'm lucky to have you".

In Poetry they say, "Of all the people the world has created

With all the roads I could have taken

And all the lives I could have lived

Some impossible miracle of timing

Allowed my story to cross paths with yours

And if I spend the rest of my life

Searching for a word greater than lucky

I still don't think it is enough to explain

What you are to me."

Sigh..... I guess I like poetry....

With that, the adventure continues,

Love, Jim and Cheri