As a follow up to our dinner with the Chinese last week, Mike received a call from one of the Americans working with the Chinese on the contract to partner the two companies. Our dinner last week was on Tuesday and they told Mike that on Thursday while the negotiations were going on, this gentleman looked up from his paper work to see one of the Chinese gentlemen eating one of the ears of corn. I can just imagine - everyone working hard to agree on the terms of this partnership, they are supposed to leave the next day, so things are stressful to finish up. Looking up to clear up whatever point is on the table, and how funny to see someone just eating (cold mind you) corn on the cob!! The guy was laughing his butt off when he called Mike.

My coat closet has been started. Today we went to the home improvement store (good thing Mike got some gift cards and cash for his birthday last week!). We got home, had dinner, cleared out the corner of the office we are working in, and then Mike took down the half wall and framed up the outer wall to the closet. We talked about design and function since this is going to be a deep closet, I get a shelving unit in the back for boots, mittens, hats, and my craft stuff and he will have a shelving unit on the side for his boxes of paperwork that were stored in that corner on a plastic shelf. I will still have lots of room for our coats ( yeah, get them out of the bedrooms - Mike and I have no room in our closet as it is, that's why I am getting a new closet up there later this month!) He had originally designed a coat closet to be off the kitchen, but I claimed that space as a pantry over a year ago. Yeah, time to work on our house!!!