Present state of the kitchen floor. Fortunately this is all we had to excavate to remove dry rot. At present we have no stove and no water on the main floor, except for the washer. Can we turn the washer on gentle to wash the dishes?

Looks like a jailbreak to me! Ancient wall makes room for new doorway.

Stucco-ing! First coat.

Snow scene out front door

More kitchen demo

'Twas the week before Christmas and . . . Oh My!

Bye-bye Kitchen. One more wall to go. Notice the nifty temporary pantry in the back bedroom

Down goes the Garage

Beautiful autumn afternoon - view from front porch

New back addition underway

New Front Addition and garage

Tearing down porch chimney - Mess!

New roof

Tearing down old addition and chimney

War Zone?

Filling in old garage

Great bonfire number two

Great trash pile number two

New Post!!

Can you believe it? After months of requests I am actually attempting to blog something - all the previous ones were postes by long-suffering daughter Melissa. Here goes!