Curb appeal

After more than a year since I first bought the church, she is finally getting some curb appeal. Rich is moving along on the stone wall and when I get up there on Friday, I should have really nice stone steps installed.

I finished the painting and staining of the front porch. I bought post caps (from DecksDirect, the nice folks who helped me select the low voltage lighting). I painted them and hopefully David will have them installed when I arrive.

Deb brought over a variety of sprinklers for me to choose from. I was happy to see that there was a sweet little sixties number that matched the color of the front door. It works like a charm but I have a sneaking suspicion that one might not be allowed to water their lawn in the village of Coxsackie. I never see anyone else's lawn getting watered with a sprinkler. Perhaps I'll ask the mayor.

And look what I saw! Baby blades of grass!

In what will be the biggest event of this week's renovation is the finished installation of the new patio door on the North side of the house. David had just screwed it in for last weekend so I could see the placement of the transom but it was not functional. Over the course of the weekend, I wished that it was operable about twenty times! I'm looking forward to being able to enter and exit from right off the kitchen.

Next blog update: Gail tries to lay a brick path.