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19 May 2003
 
The good things about the weekend: I've got new front steps! YAY! I got to see Mike and Jamie! YAY!

Two 12 hour days of construction and hauling and sawing and drilling and prying and measuring and going to Home Depot for more wood and sawing and drilling and measuring and plan B and plan C and plan D later, I have new front steps.

That's pretty much all I did. It was Family bonding... I was so exhausted. I'm still so exhausted. So we tore up the floor to my front porch and discovered a WHOLE FREAKING COLONY OF CARPENTER ANTS! Now I love a Bug's Life as much as the next person, but these ants weren't blue or purpule. They were big, black, shiny, and juicy. And they were eating my house.

So, they got removed. All the wood there got removed. 2 layers of plywood because the last people who redid the front just layed down a layer of plywood over the rotting crap. We had to raise up the support beams a little, which was easy, lay down the new plywood, and then cover the existing stairs. Easier said than done. The original plan involved knocking the edges off the cement steps.

Wasn't going to happen.

So we ended up building a box-like structure that extended the top stair out over the top cement step and working from there. Only we had to shim the bottom step, so it's a little taller than the rest, but that's ok too. But now I've got a little patio/porch thingie out from the enclosed front porch. (It's hard to describe). But I need to paint them, which will come when I paint the rest of the house (or have it painted).

But I was going to mow my lawn yesterday, but construction was still going on, so I didn't. And I'm bushed! Anyways, looking forward to seeing people on Friday. I'll have to figure out directions from the south. I might take a long way home from work just to see.

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 10:23