As you may or may not remember, this was the before picture:
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Now for your viewing pleasure, I present the during photos:
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And lastly, the after photos taken this morning by #2:
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I intend to take more after photos on a day when I'm home in the afternoon and the sun is to my back, but that day wasn't today!
Another project we're working on is extending the front porch out. You can almost see, in the after photo, that we have a cottage stone wall off the front porch. We've filled that area with rock and sand and have been in the progress of "paving" it with cobblestone type bricks. We were only about three of the cobblestones away from being finished when the Rotozip died. I got it for him for Christmas, so it was still under warranty. I called the company, and they are having us pack up the one we have to be picked up by UPS in the next couple days, and have shipped us out a new one.
The rest of the project will have to wait until after the new tool gets here, but Hubby will have a shiny new one to play with when it does!
After the porch extension is finished, there is another outside painting job that we will be doing. While you can't really see it, the columns on the porch have what could only be described as "insets" on the base and pillars. We are going to be painting the "insets" also. Hubby wants to only paint the insets on the bases, I would like to paint the base "insets" the light blue like what our recent paint job used (since we have a hallon and a half left of it), and a darker blue to match the shutters on the pillar "insets". Before definitely doing that though, I want to play around with Photoshop to see how it would look. It might make it too busy, and quite frankly I don't want to have to paint over that dark-dark blue with the light stuff to undo it! Electronic exploration is a much less labor-intensive method of experimentation!