Time for more Bungalow guests

This time around, we have Tom and Cathy chilling at the Happy Bungalow. They'll be leaving on a road trip shortly to head over to Pacifica, CA, where Cathy will be starting on her new adventure to see how life treats her on the West Coast.

In the meanwhile, that leaves plenty of time for some "Goodbye Chicago" jam sessions and yummy barbeque's before they go. We've all been soaking up some much needed R&R in the backyard, and here's our latest relaxing addition, the hammock.

And here, The Wichmann's make an appearance as we make our long past due phone call to China...

Also, I'm happy to report our front lawn is growing like crazy. Although, we seem to have lots of holes from all the squirrels who like to dig up the lawn searching for some food... I'm sure Sid would like to resolve that problem for me...

First Bungalow Guests

Tonight, we have our friends Mark and Tina coming to stay with us for a few days. They are our first official guests!

The good news is that the house doesn't smell like we had a flood. My Uncle Joe lent us his dehumidifier, and we think it's really helped. Just in case, we bought 4 gallons of bleach to scrub the basement with, so that should emit a nice smell for them... but it's better than a mold smell and we need to clean up any bacteria the city of Chicago graced us with. We made the smart choice of stocking up on over a case of wine, that way, they'll never even notice any smell.

Last night Mike started the task of sawing holes in the subfloor to locate the drain giving us trouble. More good news... we have yet to find any water damage. We think we know the route the water took, so we should just be able to remove that portion of the floor until we're ready for total demolition. We'll post some pictures soon.