December got busy, as usual, and while I was busy, things continued at the house. Walls kept going up, roof kept going on, openings got closed up until windows get here… And then, on December 9 we got hit with a ‘ground hurricane’ -- 90 mph winds, the highest ever recorded here. Left us without power for a couple days and blew down approximately 200 trees, all of which unbelievably missed the house. Next day, after a couple hours of clearing and we could get to the house, Nils calmly asks me if I have insurance. His insurance covers everything until it is attached to the structure and then it is mine. Short answer is that I do now! Don’t even want to think of what a disaster that could have been. Instead, only loss was the port-o-john! And we don’t need to worry about deciding which additional trees to take down – Mother Nature took care of that.

So, walls continue to go up, roof on, openings closed up… can’t wait to see it after being away for 10 days!