Barron of Blog Wife, Libby, and the Pursuit of Happiness

New Furniture

The $5 garage sale television stand that has proudly sat in our family room for almost 3 years has been retired. In it's place is this monstrously beautiful television mansion:

Naturally Libby was compelled to sit inside this new behemoth for about 10 minutes for a closer inspection.

Porch is Complete

We're still working on the landscaping, but you can see that Shannon has already set out some fall decorations in the corner. I'm going to be laying down some more mulch tomorrow, then Adirondack chairs in a week or so, and eventually a porch swing. Whoop-dee-doo!

Porch Almost Finished

The porch continues it's march toward completion...

Tuesday - The frame goes up:

Thursday - The roof is (mostly) completed:

Friday - Gutters are added, electrical boxes are positioned in ceiling:

Our Porch Continues to Progress

It's pretty cool how much has gotten done over the past couple days.

Thursday - bottom layer of concrete and base is laid down:

Friday - framing of porch and fill-in with rock/gravel:

Monday - brand new slab of concrete has been poured and smoothed:

New Porch Has Started!

We received a call late Tuesday night that our contractor was ready to begin putting in our new front porch, and within 16 hours there was a crew of people jackhammering away! Here are the beginning stages of demolition: