OUR HOUSE... IS A VERY VERY VERY FINE HOUSE...

This is the little house we have ended up calling home. It's PERFECT: although Eric wishes the rim weren't pink! ha ha ha

But you seriously can NOT complain about the view! Now... we have cleared all of the grass away, so it's just sand in front of the house, and we of course burned the trash pile so that it wasn't such an eyesore. This is a beautiful thing to come home to after a long day in the ministry.

One of the first projects that the new house was to paint the slats on the windows and put up screens to keep out the bugs! Screening our bedroom was the first priority, unfortunately we haven't managed to find time to finish the rest of the house yet... so our ritual every evening at dusk is to run around shutting all the windows in the rest of the house.... let's just say when we forget the ritual... we pay! Hopefully we will get a day next week to finish them so that we can get the breeze at night without the itchy aftermath!

Yep, Marlin came over to help! And if you look closely you'll see that he discovered bubble wrap! ha ha ha That stuff translates to loads of fun even when you're deaf! He was laughing out loud! HE must have been able to feel the vibration???

I never knew this stuff existed before Hopkins. EXPANDING FOAM: my new addiction! Mom, it's better that liquid nails! ha ha ha Eric has methodically been "sealing" all the gaps and holes in a greater effort to keep out "unwanted guests" a.k.a. those with more than 2 legs.

Here I am, painting the wooden slats on the windows.... try balancing on a ladder in the sand... ha ha ha Eric kept hearing, "Whoa... BANG" ha ha ha but I never fell off! By the way mom, child labor did me good! :)