I always remark on this and finally got a picture. The trees along I-80 are permanently bent from the wind that blows from the west.

We love visiting the dells area at Matthieson. 

Ice at Matthieson State Park

It has been a while since our last trip to matthissen so we took advantage of the long weekend to get a snowy, frozen version of our favorite chicagoland hiking trail

We were ichatting with the Kennys today when some broadband issues caused the ichat to stop unexpectedly–catching us in these poses. By the last one we were preparing ourselves for it!

The in floor heating in the cement floor has been hooked up to the boiler and it's warm. Yeah!!! Also, Art put in the tubing in the ceiling so that our upstairs living room is also warm! These are amazing improvements. The floors in the living room are now quite…

A test and a preview for Newberry's online auction, coming soon! But right now this is just a test–I needed to post this to a website so that I can copy it to an email.    

Here's the basement with the new floor poured and smoothed. We'll be able to walk on it in a few days, but it will continue to cure for about 3 weeks. At that point the floor guys will come back and apply an acid stain to make it a light…

Here are the floors ready for concrete pouring. From the top down, there is tubing which will hold the hot water for radiant heating, a metal mesh, a foil mat for insulation, 4 inches of gravel, then the earth. There are pipes along the walls that collect any water that…

We got just a bit of fluffy snow and it nicely filled up the concrete handprint in back of our house!