Day 47-51

The garage is starting to look a lot different and we can see the beginning of the end. The windows started coming out and going in. It’s hard to say goodbye to the beauty of the old windows, but it’s really easy to say goodbye to their draftiness. So long curtains blowing on a cold winter’s day. Will I need my giant Uggs and electric blanket now that the windows and floor furnace are being replaced?

Dumpster news: On day 49 a truck arrived to pick it up. But guess what, the truck left without the dumpster because the driver said the dumpster was too heavy. Brad, David, and I watched him try to lift it, and as we did the truck’s front tires came off the ground a foot or more. An hour later another truck arrived. I watched from the kitchen as the driver maneuvered the truck so he could lift the dumpster. I don’t know how he did it, but the dumpster is officially gone!

Stuccoing of the second story begins tomorrow. The stucco guy, Red, brought his scaffolding over this weekend. I assume he won’t actually start applying stucco until the metal beams are out, but perhaps all of the weight from the second story is no longer supported by those beams and we don’t need to worry about cracking. As for those beams, Junior Brown will hopefully be back (from moving a house to Louisiana) this week to remove them. In the final photo you can see the new windows and the scaffolding that’s been set up.