Days Three and Four - Two steps forward, one step back

Knock out the wall and put in french doors out to a deck. Sounds pretty easy, doesn't it?

Apparently not.

The window is gone, but what lies beneath?



Apparently, what lies beneath is six or seven layers of old siding, stucco, and cement



Not much progress has been made on the former-pantry area


But at least the entryway into the room has been widened and made higher. In the background you can see a few of our legion of workers who get paid in beer, pizza and the occasional burrito



At last! The doorway has been created! Sure, it took two days longer than anticipated, and at this point we don't even have a door to put in the doorway, but all that is beside the point. Look at the doorway!! A thing of beauty, to be sure.




Here we have framing that will not only become built in shelves to hold, you know, stuff, but will also be "flush" with the fridge. It is very important to have things be flush, did you know?



This is Patrick, thinking to himself that we've all clearly lost our minds, but at least we still give him goldfish crackers. When he gets cut off from the goldfish crackers, he's in deep trouble.