A 'poor man's' pergola & some porch art

Another weekend of rain - of course!  Doesn't mother nature know we're on a strict schedule with this project?!?  We had high hopes of getting the roof off and rebuilt on Saturday, but it didn't stop raining all day.  We got a few dry hours yesterday & were able to take off all of the old tin roof & a lot of the old siding, but we're not nearly as far along as we'd planned.  It sort of resembles a very primitive pergola now.  Haha.  Dad was able to take the afternoon off work today to work on it a little bit, so we'll see how far he gets by the time I'm off work.  Hopefully we can play catch-up tonight & get this project back on track!

Old cedar siding off...getting prepped to re-wire & eventually put up new siding!

Dad working on re-hanging the gutter after we took off the old tin roof.  It's so much brighter without it.

Some art I sketched out the other day to hang in the porch - I can't wait to 'decorate' it.

The list looks pretty similar to where is was last week...with a couple of unexpected additions like re-hanging the whole gutter since it was apparently just resting on the old tin roof:

• Jack up porch.
• Order roofing material.
• Demo lattice & chicken wire & clean off porch.
• Dig post holes.
• Pour cement footers.
• Level out the porch & get the posts put up.
• Tear off all of the old siding.
• Tear off the old roof.
• Re-hang the gutter since it was resting on the old roof.
• Frame everything out.
• Build built-in bar.
• Re-route cable to other side of porch.
• Wire for the new light & outlet.
• Hang new siding.
• Prime & paint all framework.
• Install new roof.
• Paint siding.
• Install new light & outlet.
• Hang up screen.
• Retrofit screen door for existing space.
• Paint screen door.
• Prime & paint porch floor.
• Trim out patio door, window, and all screen panels.
• Purchase & hang porch swing & pallet planter.
• Build, prime, paint new steps up to porch.
• Fill nail holes & touch up all trim work.
• Hunt down three cool chairs & paint them.
• Sew a few throw pillows for the porch swing.
• Plant window boxes.
• Mulch garden around porch.
• Perhaps finish off bottom of porch with lattice?

26 days & counting!