ROCKING OUT

We started thismorning finishing up as much as we could on the left side of the front porch... Then the sun became too much so we decided to go inside. We worked on hanging the mantel of the fireplace after Tommy cut it to length. Tom's dad had welded us some brackets a few days ago so that we could drill holes into the back of the mantel and the brackets would slide into the holes and all we have to do is screw the brackets to the studs... It worked pretty good. Then we made a bucket of mortar and put up a majority of the corners on the fireplace... When we were done with that the shade was back out on the front of the house so we went back out and started the right side of the porch, we got two big batches of mortar finished before it got to dark...

While we were outside a few hot air balloons came over the house. Hooper is freaked out by them. They make a "dragon breathing" noise from the propane torch and it scares him to death... He stares at it for a little while and then he runs inside! poor baby!