And then there's the outside......

The front porch is being carefully disassembled and reassembled. This is for safety and longevity. Once complete it will look much as she did in the beginning of the last century.

The original front stairs lead to the old rock walk way. The walk way will be reworked, as time and construction have taken a toll on it. There are a lot of the original rocks available to spruce it up. The walk way will continue to the street with a large rock crossing the ditch once the failing culvert has been removed.

These are the old rock steps that lead to the outhouse and chicken house. Above them will be a generous parking area. Cars will enter from Governor’s Hill and exit the other side. The shed in the picture will be relocated.

Sometimes it’s the little things. In the dead of Winter, in the middle of a muddy construction site, these sad little sticks remain. These were Bessie’s four o’clocks. Todd, the contractor made the statement the other day that they had been working around these sticks the entire time. He followed that statement with the fact that they are really pretty in the summer.

Take a moment to also notice the bottom of the house. This is where the foundation needed to be reworked. The space will be filled with some of the original rocks.

Here you see the side of the house where there will be an 11’x20’ deck. There will be a rock walk way down the side of the house, just to the other side of the french doors, where there will be steps leading to the deck. The deck will be in the area above the rock wall.