They poured the floor in the garage today. I assume they did in the lower basement too, but I didn't go wading through the upper level to find out. I'm pretty sure that would have irritated the guys who were trying to make it smooth, so I just took their word for it.

We would have done this months ago except for the whole snow thing.

Ray tells me I can come back in a few hours and write our initials in it.

Yes, it's nauseatingly cute. And yes, it's permanent.

Why did I do it?

Because it's our house, and we can do what we want.

Incidentally, we also finally have the step in the greatroom.The stumbling will now commence, and should continue until the furniture is in place.