Corral the Babies..err..Bins, I mean.

Beautiful weather, means time for outdoor projects!

Here's Cooper helping me plant some flowers (or un-plant them). 

Here's Cooper helping daddy build the new garbage corral.  Yeah for projects that only take a couple hours!  It still needs to be painted, but that's minor!

And the nearly final product (still have to paint it):

(You might notice the new landscaping too!  A bit of a time lapse between the pictures...)

Big Wall Project

Several weeks ago, we started a big project- redoing the wall under the porch.  Originally, it consisted of 3 very oversized sliding glass doors with rotting and crumbling trim.  I have grand plans for the inside eventually, but without a garage to store the tools and bikes, it's going to have to remain our 'garage.'

Here's the Demo:

Evan came down and saw the wall gone and so innocently and concerned said, "Daddy, what did you do?!?!"

Here's Gram hanging out with Cooper and Evan so I could help with the work too. Notice Evan's head phones...he's recently become a bit wary of loud noises.

And now the wall's going back up!  We framed the wall with 2x6s so we could put in extra thick insulation!  During demo, we found that one of the main supports for the porch was rotten on the end and doing nothing... we replaced it!

Windows going in...

Siding (we chose to use a cement fiber board siding) going up...

And here's the almost final product!  (Yeah, no project can finish up that easily... I still have to paint it the siding, and we have 2 more windows to install, one on the left side perpendicular to the wall (trickier installation since that wall is brick and we ran out of time.) and one (which we don't have yet) to the left of the new door.