Everyone, we’d like to introduce you to our new front deck. Front Deck, this is everyone.
Other than a few tweaks on any cosmetic “deficiencies” we find that we’d like corrected, the job is done. 🙂
HUGE relief. Now we just gotta pay for it. 😐
[stephen]
Okay! Now we’re talkin’.
So, the workers showed up today a little after 9:00 AM and started dismantling the ol’ front deck. It’s safe to say that we are not going to miss it. 🙂
(…thus the reasons for the deck’s replacement)
The boys didn’t mind though. For them it was like their own little dinner and a movie. Only it was breakfast… and construction… with a pretty predictable plot.
And this next images is pretty much how things looked at the end of the day…
Soon after this picture was taken they dug the holes for the new deck footings and brought over the cement truck to distract the boys for another good chunk of time.
Needless to say, the day provided oodles of entertainment for the boys and their friends. The rain had started to kick in around this point so there wasn’t a whole lot more they could do on the actual deck. And given the 50+ mm of rain we’re supposed to be getting over the next 24 hours, that might be all that gets done until Thursday.
Doesn’t matter. It’s so nice to finally see some actual progress on our home.
More to come. We’ll keep ya posted. 🙂
[stephen]
[UPDATE]
Snapped another picture on the way home today. Give a good view of the progress so far. 🙂
Well, I left for work this morning with the front of our house looking like this:
When I got home, this is what I was greeted with:
Pretty snazzy, eh? They did a great job brightening up that sky. 🙂
Okay… so, clearly the renos did not start as scheduled. Still, I’m hopeful that things will start today. Although, we are supposed to get dumped on by generous amounts of rain today so, perhaps I should just be hopeful that things get started at all this week.
Regardless, we will update on the progress when we can.
TTFN
[stephen]
Well, here we are finally, our family journal is up and running.
The original plan was to have everything set up before for the beginning of the school year so we could take you all through our latest adventures in homeschooling and/or general shenanigans. Unfortunately, technical hiccups with domain name transfers and whatnot, delayed things a few weeks.
But fear not! Now that the shards are finally online, we’re ready to rock the interwebs.
So, since we completely missed the start of the school year, we’ve decided that the first few updates will chronicle the long-overdue dismantling and reconstruction of our front deck, set to start first thing in the morning. 🙂
[stephen]