Moving Toward the Final Inspection

JC arrived early the next morning. He spent the first part of the morning installing the porch gates he had welded...

And changing out the back porch steps so they would meet code.

Meanwhile, we needed to get the ground ready for site work. That meant we needed to find somewhere to put our flooring, which was stacked outside the back door.

Gerald had the idea of stacking it on the deck. But first we had to do something with all the piles of scrap that had accumulated.

By lunch time, we had cut and stacked all the scrap and moved several piles of flooring off the ground and onto the deck.

We absolutely loved having a nice, clean deck. If only it would stay that way....

I can hardly wait for the time our porch is just a porch and the only thing I have to worry about sweeping up inside is dirt and not sawdust and construction debris.

Now that the place is beginning to look and feel like a home, I confess I long to organize kitchen utensils instead of tools and nails.