The Mudroom Framing is Underway

One of my favorite movies is The Money Pit. It's from 1986 and stars Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a young couple who buy a beautiful old house, commuting distance from New York. Trouble starts almost the moment they move into the house. The staircase falls off, the tub drops through the floor and the kitchen nearly catches on fire from an electrical short.

Clearly Walter and Anna (Hanks' and Long's characters) are in over their heads. They hire a contractor to put the house back in order. When asked how long it will take, he replies, "Two weeks." Months later, the house is still in progress and their relationship is in need of renovation as well.

I had a "Money Pit" moment yesterday. I looked out my kitchen window to see a man on a ladder, at eye level. Turns out, our contractor has also seen the movie and when we asked him yesterday how much longer, he smiled and said, "Two weeks."

Here's a picture of our progress so far: