"your house is floating"

we had technical difficulties with our camera, so the blog was held up.  we're back on track.

the latest is that the wall between the living room and new kitchen is about to come completely out.  we can jump between the rooms(as you can see), through the 4X4's, but next week we will have the steel beam put into the ceiling space between the rooms-where the wall use to be.  the beam will be connected to a post on either end.  those posts are lined up with posts in the basement.  at the base of those posts their will be a new, deeper foundation of cement.  right now, in waiting for all this, the house is floating.   (second photo)

we also now have the beginning of our new hallway to our communal stairway.  the first day we came home to find the initial hole in the wall.  (m in photo)

 now there is a door.  photos show door from hallway now.  if you went through that plastic you would be next to the bathroom.

cooking has been challenging, but now impossible.  along with the cooking station pictured below, we also have our beloved bar bq.  the electric tea kettle is my best friend, in the mornings.

we lived without our washer and dryer for 1 1/2 weeks.  that was no fun.  only real complaint is the dust, though.  am feeling sorry for ian, our eel, and his two friends.  the fish tank was so dusty today.  m is taking a water sample to the fish store as i type.

hanging in there.  wish we could live without the dust, that's all.
more later.  thanks for asking.
a