TERMITE VILLAGE DESTROYED -- more at 10
well, we started demo-ing the shed today. it was a tiring day, but we're a bit over halfway done -- and it looks better already. i started with the roof on the south side and encountered some unbelievable deterioration. termites and water damage had pretty much done most of my job. i think another year or two of walnuts hitting the roof would have done the same thing i was doing. i think the many layers of shingles were holding everything together. breaking through the disintegrating wood and shingles was a pretty messy ordeal. it also became obvious that the front 5 feet or so was an odd addition. i moved from the south to the east side where things were in much better condition, which actually made things somewhat harder. you actually
had to pull the nails to get the roof off, not just put your hammer through it and watch it crumble. Chrissy started with the front door and moved to the west side tearing off the siding. she was a hammering, prying machine! the north wall gave us some trouble as the wood was in better condition making it harder to come off. so, she moved on to the rest of the front wall and part of the east side. bascially, we have the north and west roof, north and 1/2 of the east wall ... then the main frame (which shouldn't take long). hopefully we can get most of that done tomorrow. along the way we encountered numerous pill bug villages, flying ant nests, termites, spiders and the like. i found someone's secret whiskey stash (empty unfortunately) and in another spot, a secret stash of condoms. i can only imagine what we'll find next. we worked until around 5, then gave ourselves the evening off.while we worked, we had some visitors! JD that i work with was passing through and stopped to say hi and see how things were going. we gave him (and his son Jack) the official tour while he was there. Tony stopped by with Allison to say hi also. like Tony, Allison also s
eems really nice. we chatted a bit and gave them the tour also. they seemed really excited to see what we were doing and excited to have neighbors who care about their house. it should be fun having them around.cleaning up was a bit of an ordeal ... i think i'm going to be finding muddy grit in my hair, ears, & nose for a while. and we get to do it all again tomorrow. oh, and we also hacked down one of the few shrubs on the property (west side near the back of the house). that's for project #5 ... any guesses what it is?
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 10:37 PM
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The removal of a bush and your excitement level factored in...I'm going to put myself out there and say Project #5 = Hot Tub!
while an excellent guess, that is unfortunately not correct. i will take a hottub if someone is offering??
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