I went on a road trip for the day near Saginaw, Texas [its the spacing of the pine trees with theses shrubs I found interesting; the train ---well thats for Bob], (NW of Ft. Worth) to pick-up the chemicals to stain the concrete floor in the new home. The business is called Concrete Colors, Inc. and you couldn't find a nicer bunch. The owner, Gary Hames's wife is the niece to the Cheatham's who live just down the road. Gary has helped us along every step of the way with samples and suggestions and answers to all our questions. We plan to stain the floors ourself once all the steel work is done and the sheet rock has been hung.

The road trip started out a little slow. I was driving down our road (182) heading for Clifton, when I saw a puppy running in middle of the road. I stopped the truck and all of a sudden I heard scratching on the door. I opened the door and ---well, let's just say we have a new member of the family. And it is a male!! That makes 2 males to 6 females. There where no house anywhere near where I found him, so I headed back to the house. Sam (that is what we decided to call him) fell asleep in my arms as I drove. Pam took him to the vet and got Sam started on shots. The vet thinks he's a sheperd mix and about 10 weeks old. He is very thin, but we will get that fixed fast enough. He and Fawn have become great play mates. Our littlest, Little Bit, is acting like an old mad, and Lady is being the mother over all of them. We tried to introduce Sam to the cats, but as they backed him into the corner you could see that he wanted nothing to do with them.

Tomorrow the wood on the storm room will be removed and the gang setting up the steel will get starting.

As for me; I can hardy wait to see the bones (steel framing) come together.