Mike came home right after our big Seattle St Patrick's Day marathon - 16 hours of Irish music, then jetlag! The weather was beautiful, if a bit chilly, and we had guests arriving not long after him. In fact, we had guests all summer, which was great fun, and we put a few pictures in our travel journal.

Tania stayed in Seattle to play one more show before following less than two weeks after Mike. He'd been very busy with the nearly finishing touches on the bathroom - now by far the most luxurious room in the house.

But by the beginning of April, the beautiful weather had ended. It snowed; it rained; it sleeted; it froze...
We spent more time out playing music and not so much here working on the house.
You'll find more about this summer in our travel journal than here on the house restoration page.

We'll just have to hope for more progress in 2013...