the new john

Well, I was going to write something interesting (I'm sure it would have been interesting), but I sat down and started reading through all of your blogs and used up all my time.  But I am not sorry because dang I love reading all your blogs.  Excuse me while I exude sparkly warm girlfriend feelings. 

So here is our main news, and the rest will have to wait:  we now have TWO, count them, one....two!! functioning toilets at our house.  Woo-hoo!  Especially appreciated since the one that was working before was in our bedroom, which meant that every construction worker who spent more than a half day here came up to use it.  I am happy.  I will even give you a picture, even though there is nothing fancy about this toilet. 

OK, when I went to take the commode photo off the SD card, I remembered there were pictures there from the other day, too, so you get three.  This turned out not to be such a lame post after all.

Here is what we see when we walk out of our bedroom (from the landing at the top of the stairs):

The dark beam across the top third is what we had to add to support the roof, which was starting to sag.  Visibly.

Remember the other day when I told you it was hard to take pictures of the things that are cool about this house?  Well, the things that are cool about this house are almost all outside the house, and they don't photograph well through the windows, as you can see in that picture.  I had completely forgotten that after I took that one I went out on the deck and took an unobstructed picture, so here is that one, too (you'll note we don't have much snow this year, much to the chagrin of MadMax, who is mad for skiing at the moment).

and voila, the new toilet:

hey! you wanted pictures! :-)