Growing Grass in The Front Yard

First try at filling in empty spots on the front lawn. The reason the patches developed is due to the sprinklers not reaching all of the lawn. Sharon keeps telling me it use to reach the entire lawn... but use to reach doesn't get water to the lawn. So I suspect I'll be adding a couple of sprinkler heads to the lawn.

Current progress on the grass patches. These photos were taken around the first/second week of November 2006 and it's been raining since then. It's been growing so I'll need to cut the grass on Thursday. The first photo is looking better but still going to need to go in and remove some rocks and put down more seed.

So with all that sifting rock experience from the backyard I'm going to sift this area before patching. All the excitement of planting, watering and watching the grass grow!

Fixed Broken Trim Using Roof Brackets

The trim on the front of the house was snapped because of the strange bend in the trim on the roof. Notice the cracked beam. Click on any picture to view a LARGER photo and then zoom in on the details!

Move views of the broken beam. When you zoom in on the crack you'll notice the nails and caulking some tried to use to make it stay together.

Sharon's House

The project began as just quickly screw in a few boards before going out for the afternoon. One week later and we were done. Here's the blow-by-blow action. All looked good except for a few springy boards here and there. Then I noticed under the windows a few unwelcome signs of termites. So it was time to remove the plywood and see what was lurking beneath the surface. Click on the photo above and see the beginning of the adventure. Notice the duct tape on the window screen.

As I pulled back the plywood under the window there was termite damage. Appears that water worked it's way in by the window and gave the termites a way in. Found a few more places with termites but overall not much termite damage to the house frame. We replaced one 2x4 and used copper green to on all of the boards to keep them away for good. As a precaution we decided to remove all of the plywood facing and give the house a fresh solid look.

The tear down went fast but we had to wait a couple of days for Home Depot to deliver. Plus the plywood on the front was an unusual length so we had to go to Economy Lumber.