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thanateConstruction is speeding up and getting weirder. The HV/AC guys were here most of the weekend, yesterday night until after 10, and then got here slightly after 8 pm tonight to finish up everything that needs inspected before the drywall goes up we-hope-tomorrow. (Thus is the difficulty with getting off your schedule.) The regular contractors got here at around 6:30 this morning to clean up preparatory to drywall, and cut a hole in the bedroom floor to get it upstairs. Then they brought the drywall in with a little forklift skating across the mess that is the backyard (and my poor doomed oak tree!) and disappeared again by the time I got back from playing with clay. Clearly the only time it's safe to shower around here is at three in the morning...
Look ducts!
Something happened to the front of the house, too. Not that they've got the asbestos off the bump-out for the front bedroom, but someday we might get the rest of the siding.
It is a very good thing we don't live in an HOA neighborhood (not that we'd agree to move into one) because this is the usual state of the front fence.
This is what I spent a couple hours yesterday morning doing to it; the weather was lovely, and the grass quite easy to remove, actually. There are also a large number of Fanny's daffodil bulbs from the former back garden planted roughly three deep throughout, and my favorite trowel remains in some Very Safe and Logical Place, but the one that had been living in the pot of daffodil bulbs worked just fine.
Done, with mulch, which the squirrels have been re-landscaping to suit their own purposes. Thus far, there has not been too much digging up of bulbs, which is nice. I may just have to weed an oak or two out of here next spring.
The second half of this may have to wait a week or two.
Drywall!
I keep remindinggrauwulf that at this point inconvenience maps pretty well to progress.
Look ducts!
Something happened to the front of the house, too. Not that they've got the asbestos off the bump-out for the front bedroom, but someday we might get the rest of the siding.
It is a very good thing we don't live in an HOA neighborhood (not that we'd agree to move into one) because this is the usual state of the front fence.
This is what I spent a couple hours yesterday morning doing to it; the weather was lovely, and the grass quite easy to remove, actually. There are also a large number of Fanny's daffodil bulbs from the former back garden planted roughly three deep throughout, and my favorite trowel remains in some Very Safe and Logical Place, but the one that had been living in the pot of daffodil bulbs worked just fine.
Done, with mulch, which the squirrels have been re-landscaping to suit their own purposes. Thus far, there has not been too much digging up of bulbs, which is nice. I may just have to weed an oak or two out of here next spring.
The second half of this may have to wait a week or two.
Drywall!
I keep reminding
grauwulf that at this point inconvenience maps pretty well to progress.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2011-10-27 03:23 am (UTC)I'm sad that the oak is doomed. :( But hurray for daffodils! My chickens dug all Mom's up and I finally replanted them a few years ago. Now Dad runs them over with the lawnmower before they can all bloom. :D
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Date: 2011-11-01 02:07 am (UTC)The daffodils were planted by the original owner of the house, who was apparently a great fan of them. I pulled out at least a thousand or two bulbs from the bit of garden bed along the back, most of which have been too overcrowded to bloom for years, so I'm hoping for a nice display in the spring. (That is sad about your Dad & the lawn mower.)