Hole through the foundation for an eventual sump.

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French drain alongside the house.

The garage foundation stem wall was cracked, and the north side was pulling away from the rest of it, making the walls on that side unstable.

John, standing next to the pile of stem wall remnants for scale. That's a massive amount of concrete that needed to be pulled up!

Ray showed up one evening with a massive, ancient diesel-powered compressor that was older than both of us combined. Its job was to power the jackhammer he was going to use on the garage slab.

butterfly

The second box elder, starting to come down. Once a few of the branches had been cleared, it became apparent just how twisted the branches on this tree were...

This is after I took a jackhammer to everything! I made a big push on Wednesday to break up most of the concrete. I look at this and try to picture nice paving stones, a six-person wooden table, the BBQ grill, and the potted citrus trees sitting way back in the yard. Soon, hopefully!

Clicked in my backyard

After a night of torrential rains, the back yard turned into an enormous mud-pit. Part of the project (once all the old concrete has been hauled away) will be to regrade and sod the yard, so that it will no longer do this multiple times a year!

The garage door was rusted and dangerous to operate, so to get in and out of the back yard, there was only one narrow gate, which wouldn't open all the way. This made it difficult to get the trash, etc. out of the back yard, especially in the winter.

We came back from WW to find that the foundation for the old garage was completely dead, replaced by a big hole in the ground.

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jumping spider

The new concrete foundation for the shed. The form planks have been pulled off, and the concrete was allowed to cure for a few days.

turtle foot

gecko

What a difference half a year makes! While the patio is still not fully decorated and plants are still to be planted, it's definitely starting to shape up

What it looked like when we started.

muscovy

The porch was pretty much enclosed by the branches that had come down with the tree trunk. The house, however, had escaped w/o any damage.

You can see circle of sand where the above-ground pool used to sit. It is going to the dug out oval area in the foreground. The plan is to put in an in-ground pool in this same location sometime in the future.