The power went out at my office so I got out of work early. The first thing I did was a trip to Home Depot. I found the sink to go on the vanity and picked out the fixtures for the sink. We like the goose neck with the old fashioned faucets. I tried to pick out the flooring but I've had a brain freeze and can't seem to find anything that would look good in there. I just can't visualize very well. The tile is light blue and black, the walls will probably be white and the vanity is a light wood, what kind of floor looks good with that? I wandered around Home Depot for at least an hour looking at all the flooring samples and have come up with a big fat nothing.

Rob spent yesterday finishing up the frame work, and the little tiny room is now a formidable sized bathroom. I got over to the house, after my Home Depot trip and a visit to my chiropractor, and didn't have much to do. I'm not ready to sand yet so I laid on the bed in the spare room, read the new issue of Gourmet and watched Rob finish the framing.

Yes, I am a Princess sometimes, but I did bring him snacks and kept him company. I provided some comic relief as well. As Rob was using the level to make sure the beams were straight, I gave him a new nickname - Sir Fix-A-Lot and I starting singing "I like straight walls and I can not lie.. you other brothers can't deny" (Sir Mix A Lot is an early 90's rapper who wrote the song Baby got Back with the famous first line "I like big butts and I can not like, you other brothers can' deny") Boy, I crack myself up.

Rob was hammering in the 2x4's that run from the floor to the ceiling. He is meticulous with the measurements and the spacing of the frame, which is a good thing because I do not have that attention to detail. All that measuring takes a lot of time, cutting the wood and lining up the posts takes time as well.

Maryland is bracing for another week of rain. ANOTHER WEEK OF RAIN!!!! Hence, Echo Base needs to be braced for another week of rain so tonight we are foregoing work on the house in lieu of a hardware store trip. The most important thing is to get the drain spouts so the water runs away from the house and we have no more flooding in the basement. This is also a race for time, the rain is supposed to start in the late afternoon. We may be outside in the monsoon, working on the drain spouts.

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