The garage roof is about 75% done. It’s looking fantastic – such a huge improvement (before photos). I can’t wait to see the garage painted and the carriage doors tuned up.
My brother and a friend have been working on it the last couple days. Hopefully I’ll be able to get up there tomorrow and help finish it (I have to admit that I really like roofing, though I know that probably sounds like a kid saying that he likes homework).
Once the garage roof is finished, we’ll move back inside. The drywall/plaster guys are coming either on Wednesday or Thursday this week and hopefully we’ll get the front sidewalk formed up so we can have concrete delivered on Friday.
As far as the list from the other day goes:
- toilet is installed
- drain isn’t unclogged yet
- bathroom has first coat of paint, but the color is a little off, so we have to adjust that
- front sidewalk is all broken up and half has been removed
Visible progress feels so good!
Historical comment, I think. My mother is 90 and lives with me. I was born in Rockford in 1954 and my whole life, I mean EVERY BIT of my life — I’ve heard about the flood in Rockford in 1952. How my mom lost her wedding dress… how Daddy had just finished renovating the basement and the piano was down there, Mom’s college papers and books were there (she graduated in 1937) It’s a tragedy she never forgot. She can recall every detail about the day, including her neighbor running across the street and busting out the basement windows because he said the house was collapse if he didn’t. Turned out he was wrong, if he hadn’t done that, there would have been no water in her basement — the water only came a little way up the glass…
She talks about “the house on Arcadia” as if it were human. Am I correct in assuming this is where the recent flood waters were? Is this the area you are in?
This was the first house my parents bought — shortly after WWII. They were so proud of it. If I can find photos, and if my assumptions here are correct — do you think anyone would like to see them?
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Val MacEwan