Weekend Warriors

It has been quite a busy summer so far.

Arron has had to travel a lot for work and
progress at the Villa has slowed.

Yesterday morning he headed out with Skye to get an early start on removing bad wood from the flooring. Laiken and I went with Suzanne to the Lavender festival.

I always look forward to the lavender festival. It's so inspiring,

I can't wait to plant my lavender garden.

I will plant several varieties.

Some for their fragrance, some for cooking, and some just for their beauty.

We had a nice lunch in the shade. We sampled the lavender lemonade and butter cookies!

Its fun to see the different vendors and ask the gardener questions.

Us girls had a very nice, relaxing morning.

This was the state of the Villa when I arrived.

Arron had pulled all the old wood off the foundation, and jacked the house up so he could replace all the damaged lumber with pressure treated wood.

Yuck! Over the years all the moisture from the cement foundation has been wicking up into the flooring.

There's a lot of dry rot and we have to replace all the wood around the foundation and most of the floor  joists. We have also noticed some burrowing in the wood.

Can't wait to find out what bug has been eating our floors!

This is how I found the boys when I arrived. It was 95 degrees out and they were both exhausted.

Arron works so hard, I know he is doing everything he can to get the Villa livable for us. As excited as we all are to be living there, it is nice that we aren't in any rush.