“Our house, is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy ’cause of you….”

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

They said it would be finished by June 1, and, except for some trim in the back, largely invisible to the untrained eye, it is.

Even though I was here for most of it — shuddered as the old siding was ripped off,

got a headache when the new windows were pounded in, took our poor beside-himself dog Copper for walk after walk to get him out of the place as the work continued — it still seems miraculous that from this

 … there came this.

Perhaps there was some magic fairy dust involved…