Bricks and pavers!

Today we looked at bricks and pavers!

Construction is scheduled to begin on Monday, October 3--one week from today! The first order of business will be the new front porch and patio. Today we went to a local rock retailer to look at choices of brick and other paving stones. The choices seemed to be brick, bluestone, and more bluestone.

Neither Jeff nor I care much for bluestone--it looks elegant, but a little cold. We'd rather have a warm, earthy color, so we'll probably go for brick. We wanted to see more choices than the local establishment had, so we went to Lowe's, but they didn't have brick--just faux brick. This weekend, we'll head down to Roanoke to visit a couple more rock sellers before we go camping.

We still haven't decided on the flooring. Considering everyone's votes, online and offline, we have three votes for each of the choices. I guess we'll have to make the choice ourselves!

Other changes--we've moved the dog's crate from the dining room to the bedroom--she'll want no part of all the people who will be in the house; the dining room table is now on the back porch; and the cat food is on the back (screened-in) porch as well. We don't want the cat to panic and/or get out of the house while the workers are here, so we'll make sure she's in our bedroom each morning before we leave.