On a day that featured almost continuous rain, it started with a brief period of calm and a lovely mist moving down the river. Jeanine and I spent a good bit of time starting to build a “scrap book” of design ideas for the new house. Our architect has taken the as-built measurements of the house and will be ready for our first kick-off meeting in a week or two. One big decision that we will sit with for a while before committing to is a change from our current roof structure to mono-slope low pitch roof. We both realized that everytime we identified a house that we liked, it had this type of roof.