And the beat goes on

 the world continues to spin and we humble humans keep moving forward.  the sun is shining here today, shining on the fresh layers of snow that covered everything this last weekend and the weeks before.  we have a lot of snow this year and it ts only December.

 OK, the winter weather report is finished.  now on to the other news.  this past weekend bud and i went down to Coleman to meet with the company that supplied Leo's house.  we are in a battle with them over foundation support issues, plumbing pipes that were cut and not repaired and foundation height issues.  it seems that the contractor that we hired isn't doing a very good job.  Leo has been down in the crawl space trying to hook up the TV antenna and he was the one that discovered the issue of the house not resting on the cement block supports properly, a pipe that goes from one bathroom to the septic tank was cut when they set the house on the foundation and not reconnected so anything coming out of that bathroom was draining i to the crawl space.  we are lucky that Leo had not used that bathroom.  our meeting with the company representative went fine.  i told them that they weren't going to get their final payment until everything is fixed.  they told me that they wanted to 'lock' us out of the house and i told them that wasn't going to happen so they just left without their money and Leo has moved in.  I WON THAT ROUND and they found out you just don't mess around with the Lewis women.  

after the little battle with the house company we drove over to mt. pleasant for lunch and to help Leo get a new bed. he tried out a couple and got a great deal on a new on that will be delivered this Thursday.  in the meantime he has our old sofa to sleep on.  it is pretty comfortable.

 things are looking good in his new house.  he has managed to tune in CBS on his antenna so he can watch something more than PBS so things are moving along.

 on our way home we stopped at an unfinished furniture store and found some tables and shelves that we want to put in our living room.  it eas a great little shop just outside of Clare and the do a great job of finishing the furniture they order so we will be buying new tables from them.

 bud rearranged the furniture in our living room and we both love this new arrangement with the recliners facing the fireplace.

we still have a lot of work to do to finish this space but we feel that we are off to a great start with the new furniture.

so, the beat goes on.  we continue to work on getting Leo his house set up, our living room is looking good and Wednesday i am going to the doctor to have my arm checked out.  i hope it is healing well.