Rain, The Symphony, Bookshelves

There have been oh, 4 or 5 blog posts rattling around lately, but just can't seem to get myself to sit down and type them up.

We had a really lovely rainy weekend.  There hasn't been any rain to speak of since June, a few showers that fell in Austin but never here.  We hit the jackpot this weekend though - nearly 12 inches when all was said and done.  It was a great opportunity to just sit and watch it rain, so lovely to do that.

We did venture out Saturday evening to hear the Austin Symphony perform. They did the show "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony".  Long story short, the symphony provided the sound track to a bunch of looney tunes cartoons.  It was fabulous.  Not sure if it was more fun watching the performance or the kids.  They were so excited, laughing hysterically, and totally into the whole thing.   So fun.  Here's a link for more details, it's a great show:

http://www.bugsbunnyatthesymphony.net/concert.html

And that brings us to the bookcases.  Lots of progress.  Pretty sure the router is my new best friend, or at the very least my very favorite power tool.  We disassembled the library last night, I painted today and hauled the base cabinets inside.  With Mike's help tonight we may actually get those cabinets installed and the top in place.  The shelving units are ready to assemble once the base cabinets are done.  Then it will be on to all the mountains of finishing work that needs to be done.  All of it is a bit scary at the moment, moving things into the house and actually taking off baseboards and painting walls and such makes it much more real.  It is exciting though and hopefully it will be finished sooner than later.  I'll miss my self imposed end of Oct. deadline, but the wait is worth it.