as I type ...

Burke and Son Hardwood Flooring is working hard on our hardwood floors. At last, the hired contact workers are beginning to show up. It's enormously helpful to know, especially as the semester draws closer, that progress on the house can be made without us.

Take a good look at the "before" pictures:





































In other news (and I almost don't want to type this and jinx it ...) the house painter may well show up tomorrow to begin sanding the exterior. We've had an especially wet summer and he's been put well off schedule. (If you look back at these posts you'll notice one every month that claims excitedly "the painter is coming!")

Of course, he was going to come today, but it rained.