"Sean didn't answer.The construction of the new rooms to change BB's and Sheila's home into a duplex progressed much slower than expected. The process... started with design plans being drawn up. Then, after county approval which took some rewrites, all the ground work began. Trenching for waste lines and plumbing had to be dug. Foundation forms had to be built and concrete poured.Sean tried to speed the process by using his trick on the water in the concrete. The result was very brittle concrete. When Jill got back and found me there, she told me she wanted to have a picnic, and that she wanted to have it in her old tree house. She'd brought a bucket of chicken back with her, and was ready to go right then and there. She handed me a plastic bag that was too heavy to be holding only chicken, but I didn't find out what was in it until I had followed her up the ladder into the structure. What had seemed so large when it was first built, now seemed cramped, or would have for two people in a. ''Well it is less fun just talking on the phone but at least this is better than nothing, just hearing your voice is a big tonic, ' she said.'Since you've got a free Friday night what have you got planned, a quiet night in talking to a friend by phone or are you meeting up with your friends and going out somewhere?''A bit of both actually, I am talking to a friend right now, he is also my boyfriend, my savior, my lover and my husband, and he just needs get old enough for us to make if public.. "I suppose you do." He pushed me back down, as I'd risen to my feet. Not in a mean way, but insistent, like I was forgetting my place, and I was soon kneeling as he took the towel back.I gave him a little list of what I wanted and he was nodding and agreeing to most of it. "No coffee, I'm afraid. It's not really good for dogs," he chuckled. "And hot water, hmmm ... I'll see what I can do. The tank for this faucet is outside, so the sun heats it up during the day. Might be best if you bathed.