Hello Friends! Are you having a good week? For those of you affected by this heat wave, I feel your pain. We have those here in the south, but at the moment things are not too bad in our part of North Carolina. I hope you have some cooler temperatures headed your way soon! I wish I had some prettier pictures of the house at the moment, but I don't. It's still in the in-between, ugly stages. The house itself doesn't look so ugly, but everything around it looks rough until we can get some landscaping done. We won't be doing much landscaping until the rest of the big trees are felled, cut up, and hauled off. Our tree guy won't be able to get back to us until week after next (most likely). The rest of the work has to be done with the assistance of a crane operator. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I would never buy another home with so many enormous trees so close to the house.