Wednesday.. Bristol Band Night

Not a lot to say about Bristol Band...
We play every Wednesday in the summer on the Band Stand in the Park from 7 to 8:30, sometimes we sound pretty good!
It is fun and I get to torment my high school band director. What FUN!
It is great for the kids too, they get to come up and run around with a bunch of their friends from school and soccer camp and play on the park.
I have been playing Baritone horn with the group for the last couple of years. It is fun to be playing again and even though there is a strict law against taking the books home and practicing, we manage to do pretty well. I think that biggest night of the year was our first night when we had close to 50 people show up to play. We were really squished on the stand, but it was a great to have so people playing.

The Beginning... the House

As I decided that I wanted to have a nice and easy way to share information with a friends and then thought, where do I start... I guess, as always, I will start in the middle and work in both directions. Confusing and so like ME!

Last night I got home from work with the big old Ruckus in the back of the car... I looked out in the field to see the big truck with the concrete foundation forms and had to go and see it. I feel a little like the hole in the ground is a reverse archaeological dig. It is the look of what is to be rather than what once was. I cannot even tell you how exciting it is, that I will have a nice new place with warmth and no leaks... ahhh, civilization.

We are working again with Rich of New Haven Builders, one of the nicest people on the planet! He is getting us around the corners and curves of all that changes in this wonderful, exciting and maddening process.
He has chosen his favorite foundation man who is in his seventies and works with a younger helper. Rich likes to work with him, as his ability to make the base quite close to perfect means that every other part of the building is that much easier. The only draw back this aspect of perfection is that he will NOT pour the floor unless the weather will be good for about four days.
This summer it will be a stretch to find that kind of luck. We are coming to the end of one of the wettest Julys on record.
I am excited to get home each day to see what has happened out in the field.
Here is Ruckus, adding his approval to the hole that will be my house... He likes to come out and see everything. He enjoys running up and down the piles of dirty and making sure it is all "copasetic".
I have a bit of a fear of the dog or myself falling into the pit and getting skewered on some rebar. I know that it comes from the Jet Li movie "Black Mask", where one of the bad guys falls horribly onto some rebar. OW! I really don't think it will happen, but it not a fun visual.
Lois also got the driveway permit back from the State and so they will be demarcating the area to be designated driveway and making Tim, our excavator will be taking care of that soon. Maybe when I get home today, that will be all done.

I suppose that is about all for the moment. I am going to try to keep putting pictures and information up as time rolls on.
Please let me know what you think! And to everyone that I never write to or call... I do miss you, I wish I was not so far away from you. Love! ~Marin