December Project

This month, while we are at home, the men in our house have taken on the project of removing and rebuilding the front porch. Our century-old house has begun to shift this past year, so the guys decided to see if our sagging front porch had anything to do with the problem.

Nick and Bristol did most of the tear-off work

Digging holes for footings

Aaron Wubbels, a good friend, stopped by one night and ended up joining the work crew

The new porch is considerably higher than the old one

The old pillars were salvaged to keep as much history intact as possible

Add a porch swing, a few seats, a clothesline and some cats and it looks like home sweet home again.

P.S. A little piece of information...for those of you who noticed that our house has two front doors side-by-side, we've been told that it was built by Czechoslovakians, whose tradition was to have two front doors (we're not sure what the use is!). Since Mom is part Czech, we figure we belong here!