news!

A lot of news after some long busy months: a new job, new things in our house, and in the near future a family expansion!First things first: I changed jobs, basically went to another consultancy. Payment is better, in about a month or so the car will be better. Downside: my new client is crap. Even Dilbert can't describe it. If you think SOX is fun, think again!
As for the house: our "garden" has no more building on it. The walls around the garden, left standing when the building was removed, are not in danger of falling over anymore. My father and myself constructed a nice wooden roof next to one wall; we'll store firewood under it. The wooden terrace is done, fertile topsoil has been brought in so next spring we might even see some vegetation.
The house itself is coming together nicely, the only things left to do are either to expensive for the moment (new bedrooms above the garage) or to annoying/boring (painting, installing the second loo downstairs,...) to do.One nice novelty: our garage now not only has an automatic garage door (10m2!) but also a real, metal, closeable back door!

More important than house and job is new future family member: end this month we finally get our doggy, a chocolate labrador!! I don't know if the picture below, taken a week ago, is ours; if not then it is one of his brothers or sisters :)

Mr and Mrs stellegasie can't wait, in fact the entire dog setup is already installed, chewtoys are ready, books read and reread, holidays booked, the name choosen (and carefully kept secret!) ...

We are visiting the kennel at least every week now, and it is surprising to see how fast our puppy grows. Last weekend he was already over 3 kg - on his way to the 40+ kg in about a year!