One of the guys, Jay, pulled up sick today after taking his family to Pizza Hut last night. We hope he (and his family) are feeling better today. It's scheduled to be a terrific weekend up here in the Northwoods. It certainly would be a great weekend for staining!

With one guy down, Bob and Dennis made a valiant effort at getting all the windows in. They did well to get virtually all the windows in on the main floor.

Here one of the homeowners checks things out.

And the view from the pier is looking suspiciously like the renderings.

Today Ann took an excursion up to Conover to meet with our kitchen designer to pick out some appliances. I think you'll find them (ahem) unique. Here's one. It uses about 2 gallons of water per load, will be soundless (at least until I get hearing aids), but the selling point was this:

When one of the sales guys was in training for these units, they put a whole carrot cake in their and it cleaned the plate. Little did he know that I was hiding behind the unit.