WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

So awesome that you're building a house parents!!!!!! Can't wait to hear all the whozits and whatsits galore! You want thimabobs, here, I've got plenty. We can compare house talks!

It'll soon be Turkey time and we'll probably eat steaks! But more importantly, of course, pumpkin pie and sweet potatoes with marshmellows.

Current Willow Info: we have about 4-6 old inches of patted down snow on the ground, and about 2 inches that fell last night. It's been about 20 degrees every day. The snow plows have a weird dump truck device that dumps lots of dirt on the road, not salt. The sun rises about 9:30 A.M. and sets about 6:00 P.M.

Once it hits Dec. 21 several minutes of light will be added back into our sunlight daily. The sun shines every day for at least a couple hours - BEAUTIFUL!

Tomorrow I torture children with an 8 parts of speech test and then a forcefeed of Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD. No, not Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. That's my rehearsed answer to, "Is it Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?" No, it's Charlie Brown Christmas.

Also tomorrow we meet with our Countrywide financial dude and hope he works out the 45 usual days of loan waiting into 17 days of quickness. He said he could. That's right it's only 17 days until our official finish date of Dec. 12th. We probably will be backed up at least another week into Dec. for actual moving in though.

AND LET'S HOPE it's all good by the time the 1040s get to ALASKA! WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!

HOUSE UPDATE: "Maple" darker khaki siding put on the garage so far; looks sharp. All regular walls (drywall) on the ceilings and most of the house except upstairs room. All electric wired and ready for lighting, including outside lights. We speculate rest of walls, siding, and floors for next week.

We'll let you know when the toilets get in.

Something cool is that we found out around our kitchen bar/counter there's going to be decorative river rock that is on our fireplace too! Speaking of fireplace, we have a huge fat awesome round log for a mantle! COOL! Can't wait to hang stockings from it!

Welp, tomorrow is Friday of sorts! Someone print this out and give it Gramps! Wish we were with the fam this week! Safe travels to Gramps and Trace as I saw snow storms coming into the Ohio area. Thinking of you all, especially Matteo and the S.D. time of Turkeyness!

"Happy, happy, joy, joy" - old school renandstimpy