"Bill (Alison's brother-in-law) did a wonderful job on building shelves and closet space in our bedroom.  We are so happy to be moved back in to the room.  Now that we've finished that home improvement project, we're starting on the next one:  adding two feet to our home...(after an appropriate pause, we continued)...and two little hands, and two little eyes, and two little ears...(usually by now, there was understanding on the part of the listener)."

For those who got the message by e-mail, it looked something like this (by doing it this way, we learned which people read to the bottom of e-mails and which people don't):

It occurred to us that we've told a number of you about the cabinets and closet space that Alison's sister's husband was building in our bedroom, but haven't shown off the results since we were able to move back into the room about a month ago.

Also...as one project is completed, thoughts naturally turn to what's next on the list, and we're happy to share with you that for our next home improvement project...

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we're adding two feet to the house!