House Progress

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                            Calvin helping with the progress.

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Before... remember the green outdoor carpeting from 1972?

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Well, we removed that but the glue underneath it is being extremely stubborn. 

So Joe does this a little bit every day, until his hands go numb!

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Here is the old rotten play structure from a year ago.  This is where we decided to put our garden.

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Progress!  Here is our garden.  Joe used some of the posts from the old playstructure for a fence.

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This is our friend that helps scare critters away.  His head blows and bobs around in circles.  We haven't named him yet.  We're taking suggestions.

Nice gate Joe made for me.  Calvin plays with trucks in here.

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Henry helping me with earwig control. 

The first carrot!

I don't know who came up with the saying "It's like taking candy from a baby", but they definitely have not met Calvin.

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Three kids with lollipops.

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We've been having fun shooting some hoops.

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Joe replaced three railroad ties that were broken and made a cover for the basement window so Calvin can't fall in.

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Here is the cover. 

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Bye for now.  More pictures coming soon.