Quick House Tour

March 8, 2000

Hi,

It's International Women's Day and, like most men in Ukraine, I have the day off and the wife is in the kitchen cooking. Actually, it IS a big deal here and we already had our fancy lunch out (O'Brians for a hamburger -- HER choice, honest).

I just wanted to bring you up to date on the house renovation. Things are moving right along. On the left is the central "Great Room" as it was 3 or 4 days ago. Maybe to YOU it's not so "great" but we have imagination. On the right is the MASTER bath, where even more imagination is needed.

To help the imagination, I'll show a pair of the drawings of what WILL be. On the left below is a drawing of the four-segment door between the Library and the Great Room. I think we bought the apartment for these doors. Along side the doors, we will have the lights shown on the right. Costs are strange here, these lights are going to be custom made and they are not much more expensive than just regular lights. Labor is cheap, even (especially?) artist labor.

Finally, so you remember who we are, here's Marianne getting plaster dust on her coat and me doing roughly the same thing as I sit in my new office. Well, it WILL be my office. Right now it's the workers' change room, lunch room, and field office.

So, take care all you International Women and remember, it's YOUR day. And if you missed it, there's always another one next year.

Regards,

John and Marianne