"It's Looking Like a House" Party

  We have been planning to host a gathering at the new house since we started construction in August and finally we have walls and floors enough to make that happen.  With weather forecasts of colder weather, we couldn't delay any longer.  Trapper and Hans joined us for a beer, but not for the group photo.

It was also time to carry out a few traditions for new construction.  The first is placing an evergreen in the rafters for good luck.  This must be an eastern tradition, because of the ten people at the gathering, only Gary and I were familiar with this practice.

The other tradition that we were encouraged to follow was breaking a champagne bottle against the house to launch the house.  Of course, we had to drink the champagne before we could break the bottle.

And Merv found the pink lining in the clouds.