Saturday, November 12, 2011

Just wondering about adding photos

Ok, here is a little somethin' somethin' to discuss.
This is a view of the back of my house. If you will look past the attempt at a gated garden (all that to keep out deer and Sally the Labrador) you will see 5 framed in spaces.  This relates back to Sally the Labrador who used to spend her nights in what was a screened in porch.  Yes, that was once a screened porch that apparently over the years has received enough water damage to rot out the supports which were supposedly holding up the back side of the upstairs area of the house....load bearing?? Maybe, maybe not.

Neil, the kid, Sally the Lab, Sophie the Cat
We discovered this issue when Sally easily knocked down the side 1//2 wall while chasing a raccoon.  Turns out the whole back wall was just swinging like a loose tooth, it was a little scary. This presented itself as a good project to start on as we were also soon to be putting on a new roof over the Christmas Holiday YEAH!!!
Demolition began! Well, it really didn't take much.
John the Husband




Then reconstruction!  John had purchased 5 "returned" aluminum windows much earlier and this seemed like the perfect place to install them. We also have a nice door and long picture like window to install on the entrance side.  I have also been purchasing plant hangers and some pretty novelty pots to add when we "load in."


It is our plan to turn it into a green-backporch...like a greenhouse to winter our house plants and hopefully get seedlings started for a real garden. This space will get good morning to afternoon sun. I am scheming on a table and seating.
Well, that was November 2010, the roofing activities eclipsed the back porch situation, then the snow, then the tornado, the a bloody HOT summer....then school started and now it is November again.
John & I did get the windows out and figure out how to get them into working shape to install.....but I think I might ought to figure out what to do with my houseplants.

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