demolition

December is here once again.  Two trials, and a whole year in our new place now behind me.  I've decided to take the rest of the year off (sounds so much more grand than saying I'm taking 2 weeks off, right?) and started telling people at work, I'll see you in 2012.  Some of them seem a little put off by that.  Most satisfying.

And just as I return from Washington DC and settle into my comfortable routine of staying up late watching movies and playing video games, and sleeping in ... what is this cacophony outside?  Oh that's right, I have an army of workers outside digging, hammering, pouring cement, building walls, and bringing my backyard designs into fruition.  Can't believe it's finally happening.  We got our city permits, HOA approval and everything.  Months of talking about design ideas and choosing stone materials for pavers and tiles and moldings, actually turned into something really being constructed!  It's very exciting for us, not to mention costing us most of the remaining savings we had left after purchasing the home, so we are of course monitoring things very closely and taking pics of everything that goes on.  Oh, Mauro is going to move a pile of dirt from one side of the lot to the other with the Bobcat?  Hold up, let me go get my Nikon...

Can't wait to see it all when it's done.  Firstly, because it's going to be awesome.  Secondly, I can start sleeping in again.