Extra! Extra!

Suddenly, we have materials coming in all over. We have exterior trim I need to paint. We have the porch lumber. We have the sheet metal for the porch roof all broken up in standing seam style. We have a bunch of electric stuff. The steel doors are in at Menards. We still have roofing stuff because he still hasn't finished (The contractor still needs to do more flashing yet...) The siding was suppose to be delivered Wed, but we pushed it of until next Wednesday so Eric can make room. We have the soffit material ready to go. The columns for the porch got delivered twice yesterday... Once around 2pm the semi showed up and we unloaded our 500 lbs skid (6 columns) with the neighbor's skid loader. Then around 4pm we got a call from another shipping company driver who was 30 minutes away with my shipment of columns... Since these boxes actually said the names of the columns I purchased we took those too, but they are actually the same thing packaged under a different name. (The company is going to come pick them up...darn.) Eric's goal is to get the porch framed this week, and start siding next week. My plan is to get the trim painted and then I get to hang fixture boxes.

Here's el niche. The elliptical will be cut out...but that one looks too steep. So we get to stare at it for a few days and then decide on it. What do you think?

I'm overly super excited about the open hub grilles on the transom...so I had to include the picture.

This is me working at the house... well trying to work, but it turns into this more often than not. Isn't she adorable? I tried a less expensive carrier, but it was way uncomfortable. This one is worth every penny.