Once the walkway was in...the Wagstaff brothers came up for a weekend to help us with our back porch. The intention was to re-roof the porch...should have taken a few hours. I came out at some point during the process and the porch roof was ripped apart and the clapboards from the 2nd story were MIA. Hmmmm...turns out the roof was in worse shape than we realized so the boys decided to redo the whole thing...and The clapboards, well, like almost everything our previous 'handyman' did...were done the lazy way. The put a new window in (yea!) but did a shoddy job of replacing the clapboards so it was easier for the boys to remove all of that mess and start over!
Then it was on to completing the front walkway/retaining wall. We decided to do the front walk/retaining wall last so that we could more easily get the wheelbarrow full of stone up the hill and into the yard. We initially were just going to put pavers down...but it was so close to the edge of the hill we were worried about slipping down the hill. Would have loved to have a full retaining wall done from the street but it would have cost us $1200-1500 just to have it done in wood and who knows how much to have it done in stone (what I would have wanted!).
In Sept. we finally put the arch top on above the gate. WOO HOO! My father-in-law built this for me (Thanks Dad!) We still have to finish trimming it out...add the birdhouses on the fence posts and paint the fence white but that will have to wait until next sumer!
Oh yeah...we also get to scrape and paint the house next summer. Won't THAT be fun!
I'm hoping to get started on a bit of landscaping too! I'm itching to get my garden going! I did manage to revive the rhodie this summer and prune the lilac and honeysuckle (that's the big
tree in the yard). Henry loves to get his fingers in the dirt too...and grab WORMS!
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