Home Improvements

January 12 - September 14
Front porch:
Since setting up the mobile home, we have been using the steps that 'came with the mobile' until we decided what we wanted. Well, Jerry found a great carpenter whose built our western tack room (another post down the road) and Ralph gave us a price for both front and back. So we finally gave him a call a couple of weeks ago to get started on the front and decided to go with the back deck as well. The following pictures are a progression of of our front porch and back porch.

Ralph, a our Mennonite carpenter came on Tuesday 9/4 after being with his kids on their first day back to school (a requirement @ the Mennonite school), and got this far with the front. BTW that's a new front door/storm unit that doesn't leak in when it rains!! Plus it has an oval glass insert that fractures the sun when shining into the living room!!

We have had a lot of rain this week which doesn't make it conducive to work with power tools!!! Friday9/7 a little more was done to the roof section.


It's done, it's done, it's done and beautiful!!!









Back porch: again January 12 - September 14
What we had been using because of the height was an old, long table that Roszells had in their barn along with the favorite, handy cement blocks for steps






9/10: Framing for the back porch.....there will be steps from each side.

and the back porch is pretty much done too!!










Now I know you all are saying "Why didn't Jerry build the porches?" Well, he did say he would, and I know he could, however it frees him up to do other things, like school, cutting hay, putting up pipe corrals, etc. and both porches will be done in a week, and way before the winter/rain/snow come this year!!