Work, Work, Work,,,

It seems when ever we are having a cocktail or two and start discussing something,,, things happen and we make these great plans. That is how we wound up buying a boat back in 2007 and now are creating a "mud room" out of what once was our front porch.

It started out one very stormy afternoon, when the downspout for the front gutter got clogged and then the gutter overflowed and we had our own personal waterfall right onto our front porch, which quickly became a small, shallow lake. During lulls in the storm Richard would run out and try to sweep the water off the porch before it seeped through the cracks in the grout and leaked into the garage below, dripping on his tool boxes and an old 1934 Ford Sedan Delivery. However the water won, again.

When I came home from work on Monday he had started working on our new mud room. To start he had to cut away some of the siding, remove the porch railing and one of the stair railings then cut and chip away all the slate that was where the new wall would be. What I saw was an already framed out mud room and he proudly told me how he bought us two huge windows for it so it would be very light, even in the winter.





On Tuesday he did some more work and when I got home I had the pleasure (lol) of helping him install the new windows. These windows are 5 feet long and 3 feet tall. Trust me when I say they are not light. So, how does one install a window from the outside on a wall, over a garage door? Its obvious, you use a tractor!

Don't laugh, it worked. We put the window in the bucket of the tractor, raised the bucket up about as high as it would go. Then we climbed up a ladder and stepped into the bucket where the window was waiting. We then team lifted the windows into place and Richard nailed them so they will not come out.




Richard prepping the wall for the second window