To start things out you can see the current state of the deck in the back yard. At first we thought we would have to replace it, but Bob's brother Dale came down and told us he thought it could be salvaged. He power washed it and showed which joists and posts we need to replace in order to do so.

In yesterday's posting there was a picture of Mike in tight quarters in the attic. He and Jared pulled out at least 150 bottles filled with water. They were in the farthest, tightest corner of the attic and probably had been there for over 40 years (since before Bob bought the house). Mike would roll them 20 something feet to Jared and then they would hand them down to me and they would go outside and we would empty them. In this post you can see a picture of Jared putting them in the truck. We were going to recycle them but the glass was too old so we ended up putting them in the dumpster.order to do so.

Another fun demolition project was the removal of the overgrown tree in front of the porch. It completely covered the house and ruined all the planter boxes.






After returning from the Saturday Priesthood Session of General Conference, Mike changed his clothes and attacked the tree with the Sawzall and cut it down. (We didn't have a chain saw.)
It felt so good to wake up the next morning and have a little more sunshine in the house.

After cutting down the tree we hired someone to come and trim all the trees and clean up the yard. Shortly after this work was done a neighbor lady walked by and said, "Wow! There's a house in there!"