The boys are off on their Spring Break (Port Aransas and Corpus Christi) after their Mid Term Exams.  Meanwhile, the excavations began today in preparation for the foundations to be poured for our new home.  Very exciting.

12 more weeks of teaching (and next week it's my Spring Break) then my Summer Courses commence.  Finally by the end of June I will be able to move to Austin.  Our house won't be finished but it will be well on the way to being completed.  Will be creating a website to document the building progress.

Today was a brilliantly sunny day - I watched the HGTV show for more ideas on how to update my townhouse kitchen to make it sell quickly.  Then shopping around for best prices for kitchen appliances.  Didn't buy anything but I've narrowed down my choices and it is only a few days from placing the order to having everything installed.

Bob has already sent me some pictures of the excavations - now I can believe it is really being built - our Dream Home!

The highlight of the day was hearing Bob's excited voice and the rumbling of the excavating machine.  Fortunately for us, it seems the soil is mainly the soft rock type (colechi - not sure how that is spelt) which has a lot of lime in it.  We have plenty of soil to backfill for the tall concrete wall which has to be built to help support the split level foundation.

It was fun driving around with the top down in the convertible - first time for this year.   Let's hope there is no more cold fronts blowing through.  I'm ready for Spring and Summer.  Tonight we lose an hour of sleep with the clocks moving forward.

Little sleepy tonight, for some reason I have not been able to sleep through the night ever since Jamie passed away.  I fall asleep too early and then I wake up in the early hours of the morning and have trouble going back to sleep again.  The cure will probably be when I move to Austin and no longer on my own.  I hate the nighttime the most.  It is so boring and I lack motivation to do anything worthwhile in the evenings that I am not going to Graduate School.