1st Stormdoor

We went and bought a storm door for the backdoor today. We looked and looked and found a clearance storm door that they are no longer making. It was the last one in stock. It’s regular price was $362.00 and we got it for $200. Quite the deal. Scot is installing it now. Hoping we can find another one like at one of the other Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers around town for the front door. I’ll go looking tomorrow while Scot works. It won’t actually be in their system so you have to go and physically look for it. 

Deck Boards On ✅

The boys are done with the deck boards. They did such an AWESOME job!!!

The new stair cases:

Deck

Last couple of pieces going in. Both pieces have to be notched and T is watching and learning how to do it.

Growing, Growing, Growing!

Since the end of January our boy has grown 2” and he’s still going through a growth spurt right now. He’s wanting to eat everything that’s not nailed down and he’s sleeping longer hours too. He has always done that when he’s in a growth spurt. Since May 2019 he’s grown 3 1/2”. If we can get another 2” growth by the end of January 2021 that will be so totally AWESOME!!!  It will mean he’s grown 4” in a years time. It will put him in a much different weight category for sparring competitions but the height gains would make it worth it. We’ve been waiting for the 4” growth year to happen and this very well could end up being that year. He’s definitely overdue for it.

Nan check out where he’s at.  I think he’s going to owe you a dollar tree gift trip when we come to visit...LOL!  

All the grandkids when they get to be Nan’s height have to take her to the dollar tree for a dollar tree gift trip. Although with the pandemic 😷 they may forego the trip this time and he’ll just give her a dollar...LOL! 

Extra Support Boards

Old deck boards are off and new support boards are going in so that we can start putting the new deck boards on. This deck is so much more solid than it was. Makes you feel good to know that it’s getting done and done right. 

Scot was grinding off the rusty 24 year old screws. 

Extra support boards are almost all in. Looking forward to getting the deck boards on. Tomorrow we will work on the second stair case to the deck as well as finish anything we don’t get done on the deck boards. 

Rain Rain Go Away, We Wanna Work On The Deck Today!

Currently it’s looking like we won’t get to do any work on the deck today😕. This is our current situation:

Praying that it tappers off and we can get back to working on the deck over the weekend. There’s still much to get done. 

Plus we are putting two new storm doors on as well. After what we dealt with when we changed out our backdoor because of water damage we realize how much storm doors really door protect the doors to the home. A learning experience we will not soon forget. 

Last Official Training w/CK

T has his last official training with the Carolina Kick’s Team via Zoom tonight. Moving forward he will be following his coach to WOW TaeKwonDo and being on their team. We promised Grand Master Cann before she passed away that we’d keep T with Master Wasiu. He is such a great coach and we are so thankful to have him as T’s coach. T is looking forward to when we can officially train with the new team at WOW TaeKwonDo with Master Wasiu.  

Deck

We are getting closer to being done with the deck boards. Check out the new vs. the old. 

Training Never Stops

A little video of a combo that T is working on. He is doing his best at getting better and faster. His body is going through so many changes at the same time which is making it a lot harder for him to get his speed where it needs to be. Puberty + Growing Pains = hard adjustments but he’s pushing through. 

Drip Edge

Well the drip edge has been all fixed. It took the crew yesterday afternoon and this morning to get it all done. It’s looks good for what they had to deal with. Nothing on this project was done in the order it should have been done but I’m glad that the roof is officially finished now. Now we can get all the remedial work done inside the house from the water damage that was done. Hoping we can get that scheduled and all taken care of quickly. Looking forward to being on the other side of all this. 

A Set of Stairs

Well, we got one set of stairs in place minus the railings. Those will come later. Scot and T did a great job. 

I threw a picture of Tucker enjoying the sunshine as a bonus. He loves to be in the sun. 

Update on the Roof Crew

Well, they sent a couple of guys out to fix the drip edge issues. As usual there have been challenges once again.  We came up with a solution that doesn’t mean tearing down the gutters that were just installed🙄. The gutters have been one of the best parts of the job so far. I just want it all buttoned up and protected so we can continue to move forward. So glad we figured out what to do so that we could get the drip edge fixed.  So ready to be done with all this. While they work we are still continuing work on rebuilding our deck. I’ll be glad to get all the boards on and look forward to when we can paint/stain the deck😁. 

Still Waiting on Roof Crew

When the gutter crew had to redo the facia wood and facia wrap in order to install the gutters they damaged the drip edge. We’ve been waiting for the roof crew to come and fix the drip edge for over a week now. They were supposed to be here at 11:30am and it’s now 1:04pm and they still aren’t here. Such has been life with getting this roof done. Plus we are still waiting on the remedial crew to come and take care of the damage on the inside of our home from the roof being open to the elements for so long with no work getting done. Oh how we are looking forward to the day when everything is fixed and back to what it was before we started this process of getting a new roof put on. What a glorious day it will be when it’s all done. 

Deck Challenge

Well we went to take off our first set of stairs to find we are going to have to get more wood. The casing for the stairs is all going to need replacing. We can put new screws in them. Plus several are cracked on the sides. 

Fun in the Sun

Tucker loves laying on the new deck boards in the sun. 

Oh to be a dog. They have such easy lives. 

Deck Work So Far

Here’s all we got done on the deck rebuild yesterday. 

The boys got almost half of the deck completed yesterday. T worked hard with his dad all day yesterday. I love that he enjoys learning how to do things from his dad. 

Back Door Is On

Got the new back door on today. It took a little longer than we had anticipated but hey it’s done. All that’s left is some touch ups. We’ll get to that at some point...LOL!  Tomorrow we do some more work on the deck. 

Oh My Goodness😳

T has grown so much that his sweat pants don’t fit. We are going to have to buy some more😳. Jeepers. Another expense that we frankly expect to have with a growing child but the timing isn’t good😞. 

Thank you Lord for always supplying all our needs even when we don’t know how those needs will be met.  We thank you for the work coming in to bring the supply. We just thank you in advance. In Jesus Name. Amen! 

Always Learning

T loves to help out and learn how to do practical things. A pic of T helping cut extra support boards for the deck. Just want to give a little added support to our original boards.  

Hindsight is 2020 (Pun intended)

Well, we went and got our first load of deck boards with the van today. We also got some support boards as well and they came in to the tune of $450. I think that included the bucket of screws we got but that only covers maybe half the deck. The deck boards were twice the price ($23 a board, I think🤔 ) of what they were a few weeks ago when we went to check the pricing🙄. Just another thing we can thank the pandemic of 2020 for😡. With us not anticipating the cost to be that high that kinda threw us somewhat. It has to be done though so just another cost we are eating😞.