PROGRESS!

So as you can see, I managed to get a picture in!  That's progress.  The bad news is that I'm not sure how I did it.  But what a great picture, which I got off Facebook from a posting of a fellow choir member.  This is how we looked Saturday night for the last performance of Carmina Burana.  I can be found in the third row, right behind the kids in the red vests and right next to the men's section.  This is taken as the choir is marching on at the beginning.  I love the colors in this picture and I always love the dramatic effect of the organ pipes in the background.


So progress is a good thing, right?  And to piggy back on that theme, there is also progress on the house renovation front!  YIPPEE!   Since that picture was taken 4 days ago I have been back to Nelson County, met with my builder, picked plans, and chosen a cork floor for the house.  I'm waiting for the estimate of cost and then hopefully we'll sign a contract and get this puppy going.  I could not be more excited.  Things waited for are always sweeter to receive, I think.


The new house plan is vastly different from the old one.  And I have had to struggle a bit with this because there was a lot of me invested in the old plan. . .both financially and emotionally.  I had already started to live there in my mind, and now this stranger has come along in the form of a new plan and abducted my house!   So it's been an adjustment.


But I think this new plan will be terrific and will give me much more flexibility in the house.  There will be a small addition in the back for the living room in order to get lots of light into the room.   The hip roof that exists on the house hangs over the house all the way around, and keeps the light from getting in.

Holy moly I did it again!!  Okay. . . .here's the original house.  The front faces the back of an office building.  In essence it's not a front at all.  So the new front will be on the side there between the two windows.  Where the porch is on the existing front, the indenture of the porch will be removed and the wall brought out  making a flat side surface.  (Okay. . it turns out I'm way better at importing pictures than explaining architectural change.   Sorry about that.)  The addition will be bumped out of what is now the back of the house.   


Well, trust me here, it's going to be great.  You'll just have to stand by and wait for the progress. . . . . of me and my blogging, picture-adding skills, and of the house project in general.


In the meantime, I'm back up at Dave's.  Rehearsal last night for new concert.  Les Miserables tonight!   Then back home.     Life as a nomad. . . . it sure isn't blah!


One more cool IPhone thing:  came home last night from rehearsal, and within about 10 minutes had downloaded all the music we're going to sing into my phone, which is also an IPod.  I spent some time last night "studying" the new music by listening to it.    I used to have to wait a week or more to get the CD's I ordered for just such practice.   Now that's progress!