Sweet relief! Bear of a task, we have taken you down!
Check out the first seven posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
See where this whole project is heading here.
My back healed up and we were able to take the last of the rubble out to the dump today. Turned out to be only two Tacoma’s full, which is wonderful since a) we were closer to the end than we realized, b) this was the stuff with too much other junk in it to be recycled, and c) dumping is more expensive.
Observe:
The dump:
Armand in action:
Clean slate!!!
Here’s a pic from when we first looked at the house in March:
Here’s today:
On to a new year and a new yard!
It might be impossible to express just how happy it makes me to be over this giant mountain of a project. This may wind up being the hardest physical work that we will do in our entire lives and being that I’m an ex-ballet dancer, that’s saying a lot. I feel such relief.
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