Deck progress and a few other things

It's coming along! Russ never fails to impress me with his building skills. Of course, I'm impressed with my own panoramic shot, taken with my cell phone, so maybe I impress easily?

The workers:

Head builder: hard working. Confident and resourceful. Doesn't like to stop. A wee bit impatient with interrupters who just want to take a picture, for goodness sake. Completely offended if you ask skeptical questions when you obviously have no building knowledge at all. (It might not have helped that I then called him touchy and also perhaps suggested that his father come by for a spot inspection ;)

Assistant #1: a recruit, not a volunteer ;) Learning the ropes. Good attitude. Aims to please. Loves time with Dad but sighs with relief when he's released from duty!

Assistant #2: 100% volunteer. Gets distracted easily. Good at playing with dirt and misplacing tools. Happy to help, as long as it's not too heavy.

When the deck is done we'll put new porch posts up and cover the bottom half of them with stone of some sort... it's going to look great!

In other news, yesterday before school Cooper made me breakfast as a sweet surprise (such a lovely boy.) The real surprise was how much he thinks I must eat: he fixed me 3 eggs, a bowl of granola, a toasted english muffin with butter, AND a bagel with berry cream cheese.

Suffice it to say, it fed myself and all three kids quite nicely.

And completely unrelated and quite random: I read this blog post by Jen Hatmaker yesterday and inwardly felt great relief at someone so perfectly articulating my feelings about the subject. What subject, you may ask? Oh just gays and Christianity. You know, light fare! (I haven't read Jen's books and probably don't agree with everything she teaches but I do love her blog because I enjoy her humor so much, her adoption posts, and her thoughts on American Idol ;)

Speaking of which... time to go see who got the boot this week! (please not Alex!)