Help from all sides (of the country)

     From Seattle to New England folks are coming out to work on the house.  It's been so much fun to have friends and family help us out.  If you're in the neighborhood come on over.  We even give naming rights for free!  No mutli-million dollar deals to get a wall or a window named after you - just a little hammer swingin'.   And if you can't quite make it all the way here to Congress Street, well, we'll take the work and the naming rights to you!  So far we have Pepere's Bathroom Wall, Nana's Nail-Free 2x4s, Andrew and Sharon's Crib Walls, and most recently, Matt and Angela's Egress Windows.

Andrew and Sharon came down in January for a long weekend of building and skiing.  You'll have to ask them which was more fun - I think it was a pretty close call :)  We all jumped in "Fluffy," our work truck, and headed off to the lumber yard for supplies.  Back at the house we started in on the crib walls which will complete the front foundation.  They were willing workers, eager to work on whatever needed doing.  (thanks, guys!)

The egress window naming rights went to Matt and Angela who helped durning their recent (short) visit to Portland.  They didn't have time to get all the way here, so we went up to visit and took them to our new favorite store:  the Rebuilding Store in North Portland.  The place is a gloriously messy maze of anything that can be salvaged from houses being torn down or renovated.  We found an impressive front door and two matching wonderful windows to complete the window needs in our master bedroom.  (thanks to Carol the photographer)  We're moving right along thanks to all our helpers!