Photo Diary of Michael's "Vacation"

The hubby came home for two whole weeks during the holidays!  Here's a photo diary of his vacation:

This is the beginning of the vacation. You can tell because he still looks happy and chipper. He's removing the drywall in preparation of removing the entire wall.

Then he went up here (the attic) to help install a header to support the ceiling joists before we (uh...Michael) finished removing the wall.

Here he is removing the wall. Now he knows why I asked him to operate the sawzall. That darn thing will knock me backwards to the floor.

 

 And here he is climbing the ladder to clean out the gutters:

And here he is cleaning more gutters:

 
And here is the flex duct he removed from the crawl space and replaced (due to an incident with overwatering a potted plant):

 And this is what happens to his jeans when he crawls under the house:

By the time I got out of bed every morning, Michael had taken the dogs for a short hike, played ball with Ollie and resupplied the Diet Pepsi stock. There was always cold caffeine in the fridge when I got out of bed.

During the time he was here, I never had to put Ollie on the treadmill or play ball with him...not once. Yes, Ollie actually goes straight from the treadmill to playing fetch. It is not possible to wear him out. In case you're wondering, that is Hipparchia (my manx cat) sprinting in front of Ollie as he goes after a ball. She tries to break his concentration but he's pretty focused.

Michael did find the time for a little relaxing. Here he is fishing in the pond. Of course that's kind of hard to do with Ollie trying to fetch the "ball" that Michael keeps casting into the water.

 And this is what happens when Michael sits down:

See ya' later, Babe.  Been a great couple of weeks and we're all going to miss you!