Back Again

First off let me say hello again. In my last post I talked about my plans to work on the doing the lime stucco over the summer. Well you know how life gets in the way of your best laid plans? This is definitely what I experienced this past 6 months. My boys and I were helping a friend do some landscaping work in his backyard and I ended up re-injuring my back, hip and leg. Plus we had an extremely hot and wet summer. We also set an all time cold record over the winter. (You know something is wrong when New York is hotter than Phoenix in the dead of winter.) On top of all of that my family and I have been fighting the new flu strains for about the last month. Fortunately we all seem to finally be getting over the flu. Also over the last 6 months we have also lost one of our dogs, my grandmother, my step grandmother, a friend and our son's girlfriend. This has been a very hard time for us. So it's taken me quite a while to get back to my projects. Thanks to all of you for understanding the delay.

Before writing this post I looked up the statistics of this blog and I was truly surprised. There have been over 1,200 people from all over the world who have been visiting this site. I was shocked! I know that when I was searching for information before I started I had a lot of problems finding a good full range of information, which is why I started this blog. However, I never expected this much interest in this information. I honestly figured that there would be a few people like me interested in this information and my experiences but, in my wildest dreams I never expected this much interest or that the interest would come from all over the world. I was shocked and thrilled when I saw those statistics. So thank you to all of you who have read my blog and I truly hope that in some way I have helped, answered a question or maybe inspired you to give building something like this a try. 

Now that I have recovered more and can do more again, I plan on working on more projects again and since I now know so many people do have interest in what I'm doing I will continue to document my progress. I will also make it a point to not leave such a large gap of time in my posts.

Thanks again to all of you who have read this blog and I hope that if my blog has inspired you to build something or post a blog of your own that you will tell me in comment or send me a message so that I can add your information on my so that it may help other people find your blog and read about your experiences as well.