This past Wednesday (two days ago!) we put down the last of the subflooring, which came to the edge of the sill plate without any trimming. We couldn't have planned it that well. Just in time, as Irene returned from her fabulous Bermuda vacation Tuesday night.

Irene doing a happy dance on the new addition.

Mother Nature blessed us on Thursday morning with 3/4" of rain. It really was a blessing because the guys we bought our roof trusses from later that day told us they got an inch and a half. Due to the sea of mud surrounding our house, we opted to cut some firewood...a constant recreational activity around here.

Today I vacuumed up approximately 300 gallons of water out of our new basement and Michael toted those up the ladder 5 gallons at a time.

An interesting beastie brought in with the rain.

We can tell we all lifted a bunch of weights today. A gallon weighs 8 lbs. A 5 gallon bucket weighs 40 lbs. The 8 gallon shop vac weighed 64 lbs. The ibuprofen is taking effect. Time to sleep.