You're Gonna LOVE This One!

Last week, Jay was chatting with the concrete guy at Durango, who was relating a story about the concrete inspector - apparently a man who has no sense of humor. While inspecting the concrete work on our house, the inspector heard a racket coming from next door, where our neighbors were doing some tile work. He raced over to the neighbor's house... and discovered that they never got a permit for their work. So he shut their job down! Not only are we irritating everyone with our noise and dust, but we are getting them in trouble with the law. Kind of amusing.

I couldn't get my blog updated til now; I was in wine country (near the Russian River Valley) at a nutrition conference. Met some great new associates, and learned a TON about diet and disease prevention. Also unraveled part of the mystery of my curious GI distress last month. My biz associate, JJ Virgin (http://www.jjvirgin.com/) did some testing and interpreted my lab results for me. I have developed an allergy to eggs and dairy - and have now exorcised them from my diet. Very hard for me, because cheese is life to me, and eggs are in nearly everything. But I'll do anything to stop the pain in my gut. The good news? Coffee and wine are still IN the diet. The conference left no time for winery touring, however, but seeing the Fall colors made my heart soar like an eagle (a la Little Big Man)! Pumpkin patches lined the highways, and the leaves on the grapevines are turning gold. Gave me some wonderful memories of the (few) years back in PA. Nothing prettier than Fall.

Oh, yeah. The house! We continue to press on, and you can now begin to envision our jacuzzi/hot tub in the back yard. Framing continues; an outline of my new office can be seen - the room with the angled wall (well, boards on the concrete that appear to be angled). We continue to stay on schedule - perhaps a bit still ahead of it.

I've also added a photo of the great spider hunter, Jay-Z, who usually cases the perimeter of the rental home each morning, knocking down the webs built by the fat-bottomed arachnids that are literally EVERYWHERE in this neighborhood. It's nuts. By late afternoon, they have re-built their webs, often across the pathway to our front door - and we have come too close too often to smacking face first into their dangling bodies. We have a rule with the spiders: "stay on your side of the walkway and we leave you alone. Otherwise, better make a run for it."