Loose ends

We're striving, against all the odds of doing a project in the company of a three-year-old, to finish the porch this long weekend. It's 97.5% done, lacking only paint and screens, but we haven't been able to get past all the other projects and childcare in order to finally wrap up the loose ends. 

The big plan, once it's all completed and the contractor gets the rest of the soffits and facias covered, is to have a wrap-around awning installed so that it's truly a useable room, regardless of sun, rain or the pernicious mosquitoes. It's going to be great! 

We need to find a weather proof fan (or, as Riley says, waterable) for the porch so that we don't get the dreadful drooping blades on the ceiling fan. The last fan we had up, the blades eventually absorbed so much moisture from the air that they became Dali-ish, so we finally just took the sorry things down. 

In other news, we're watching hurricane Gustav and his dangerous cohorts with a wary eye. I'm thinking a lot about all the people on the gulf coast and hoping that somehow it won't be as bad as it looks right now. :-(  Seeing the way the storms are lined up across the Atlantic, all the way to Cape Verde, it looks like we're really in for it this year. 

Oh, and for those who may be wondering, Riley's eye is nearly all healed up! Hooray! :-)