New Porches

As I mentioned earlier, a lot of progress has been made on the porches.  The entire back porch is new, except for a couple of posts, and has a really different feel for a number of reasons:  it overlooks the backyard, it is several feet off the ground instead of maybe one foot, and it has railings.  Overall, I think it's going to be really nice.

But the really exciting change (to me anyway) is the front porch.  Today they cut away a section in the middle of the railing and moved it over to the south side of the porch, making way for stairs to be built directly down from the front and center of the porch.  (There is a spare post lying there, as well as a storm door on its side, so it's not the greatest picture, but you can definitely see what's planned!)

Bad news is we are looking at the END of NEXT week for sure on being able to move back in the house.  But hopefully by this Friday the yard will be leveled and ready for an attempt at planting grass seed, which we'll get going this coming weekend.  I'm tired of all the mud and dirt!!