Doug's Sounding Board

Just four pictures. Two of the now missing large tree in front, and two bad ones of the new step in front of the back door.

The paths look pretty much the same as they did yesterday though they continued to work on them. The big change today is the paving stones that were added. I was also wondering where the old stepping stones were dug up from since i never encountered them in the back yard. I do know where […]

They aren’t bonded yet, but they are there.

Pictures of the progress after 6 days are now available. If you somehow missed the others, you can click up to the parent album from there, or just go here. Yesterday we also picked out our kitchen and bathroom fixtures, sorry, but no pictures of those. Also we finally lined someone up to remove the […]

I uploaded the progress pictures for work done after 5 days. It’s good to see shape coming to the fields of dirt.

I have a better structure for the landscaping pictures now. I’ll update them fairly often. Right now there are the before pictures and after 2 days pictures. I’ll put up some after 4 days pictures tonight or tomorrow and maybe just do once a week highlights.

Starting this morning large chunks of our driveway are being removed to make way for a major overhaul of the front and back yards. Here are some before pictures and maybe I’ll post daily pictures showing progress. I haven’t decided yet.

Rip out the old dryer vent and run a new one to the outside Patch the wall where the new dryer vent is Put a restraint on the new drain pipe for the washing machine so it won’t try to push against the wall patch I need to put in. Patch the wall where all […]

We haven’t tried the washing machine yet, but it has a nifty valve for both hot can cold water with a simple lever, and it’s all in a box in the wall instead of sticking out! It took the plumber 8 hours to do everything and clean up. Part of that was because his back […]

…or somebody like him. I woke up at 3 this morning so I could go to work so I could come home at 7:30 to feed the dogs and wait for the plumber to arrive between 8:30 and 9. It’s almost 8:30 and I’m ready. Waiting, waiting, waiting… Hopefully the plumber will be able to […]