  ... what a difference 10 days make!  (Okay, don't be silly, the guys didn't work all TEN of the days) | 
  Trying to keep warm by walking. | 
  Warm you need to be.  The current home is iced in! | 
  No crabs in those crab pots - just ice | 
  And more ice all in the cove where friends live | 
  Can't wait for this beauty to be placed upon the garage - we bought her from a local 'collector' | 
  Gus can't either since there's work to be done on it | 
  Only one safe way to get it off the roof - a country-style air-lift (that's a friend on the Kubota we used to own) | 
  And, yes, that's Gus riding down in the scoop with the vent | 
  And that's the former owner - 83 this 2/14/02! - posing with me behind the truck | 
  Just another sunrise with ice on the river | 
  The house is finally getting closed in, | 
  and the angles are so much more defined | 
  Sure is cold out there - the boys work hard at keeping warm ... | 
  The cupola is being worked on at the local VoTech school | 
  Winter on the prairie | 
  A river runs through it, now frozen | 
  The bedroom dormers & shed roof | 
  Okay, I promised not to but more of the same ... | 
  With the front entrance built we're really taking on shape | 
  A friendly wave more wood is being cut (our house just eats wood) | 
  Up on the roof, the builders balance their luck | 
  Can you picture it completed?  We can! | 
  What we've been waiting for, through rain & snow, sleet & hail - tar paper on the roof |