Header for Trouble

Hopefully posting each of the days has worked out well for our readers.

Tuesday night I was able to take out the too-short header from our framing, cut a new header, and we installed it before heading out to drinks with friends of mine from my marketing certificate course. Our project for this week is measuring the ceiling joists in what used to be the sun porch. My goal is to get all the joists in this weekend. Who knows if that's a reasonable goal or not. At any rate, it was a HUGE pain in the butt to have to rip out that framing twice. It's not something I ever want to do again. Funny how we manage to keep the house from crashing down on our heads (knock on wood) but can't seem to frame a simple damn doorway, one that won't ever even have a door in it. Oh well.

One thing I forgot mention about Monday night was we made a new little friend. We were just getting home from a trip to Home Depot when my husband saw a weird movement in our hedge planting bed. We looked closer and found a pretty green frog. It was tiny and adorable. It wasn't even as long as our thumb. We had no idea where it came from, or what kind it was. My spouse asked someone at work about it yesterday, and apparently they're all over the place.

It's actually a native species of tree frog, known as the Pacific chorus frog, or pseudacris regilla. All that aside, it was adorable and wonderful and I hope we see a lot more of the adorable froggies.