Inside, outside, upside down

Interior construction. I was excited to see that we now have a breakfast nook. We stopped by the house last night after a very nice Thanksgiving dinner made by Diane. Pat had erected the walls of the breakfast nook and relocated the living room arch over it. It looks so nice! I'm glad I planned it plenty big, too, because now that I see it we may even be able to fit in a small table instead of benches. He also created a beam to take the place of the wall that was between the living and dining rooms. I avoid the basement, but Bob said he had braced something down there.

Exterior improvement. Dad came with both his loader and lawnmower a couple weeks ago. He worked all weekend again, doing odd jobs to fix up the farmstead. He and Bob pulled out lots more fenceposts (all the rest, I think?). Dad filled in some holes in the yard with soil from the field, moved rocks to Mark's rock pile, etc. We ordered three loads of gravel for the driveway and Dad spread them around. We could easily use another load, maybe two.

Mark, Bob and Joe (Amish neighbor) have all been cutting down trees. Coming down Grassmere road, you can see every building well now! I can even see good places for Addy and Dori to play, including a spot for their swing set. It was hard to imagine before with such dense tree and brush growth.