So while Miyuki and I were away enjoying the weather and the company at Camp fYrefly, Nick was at home overseeing renovations on our house.  We had the kitchen reno-ed in January and it looks wonderful.  

So now we are having the outside of the house re-sided.  They have pulled off all the vinyl siding and will be replacing it shortly with Hardiplank.  The house will be white with brown and cranberry trim.  It was a good thing that we had all the siding pulled off because we found out that the wood under the sunroom had started to rot so we are having all that wood replaced.  We also found out that there were not enough posts holding up the sunroom so we are having more posts added and more insulation added.  In the middle of all this the hot water tank went.  Fortunately we caught it before we had a flood.  This is definitely our year to focus on the house!