Let's start with a family moving to Chicago who needs their house fixed up.

Here I cleaned and caulked the trim around their front door.

Around back I removed some rotted wood . . .

and replaced it with some pressure treated stuff.

Painted and caulked, it looked like new again.

Door sills are always a problem too.

Fixed, this time with bondo and a vinyl replacement brick mold.

Yea, another door sill.

And another fix.

Then it was on to the inside.

They had a new floor put down, but needed moldings all around.

The kitchen island had been holed in the kickplate to allow drying (there had been an overflowing washer) so that need covering and molding.

And here it is good as new.

The rest of the island, eating area and kitchen got regular quarter round.

The laundry room needed baseboard.

Not much room to work in here.

Then it was back to the outside.

All the outsides of the eve troughs got cleaned along

with a spot cleaning of the rest of the house.

Our Magnolia really put on the blooms this year.

And they are huge.

During the Great-Grandparents visit Jay and Claire dropped by.

As did Travis and Becca.

Here are the three grandkids with grandma.

These are not in chronological order,

so now lets visit the HOA's tree removal project.

There were four large trees and four more smaller ones.

They were all on a slope, hip deep in juniper bushes.

I had to hook up a 'come-along' to pull the biggest down in the right direction.

All but one fell into the junipers which made the cut up and haul out

a lot more difficult and time consuming.

My cart was buried as we took many many loads to the back.

Where everything was piled up in the corner.

It looked real nice when we finished.

But hauling one of the large logs with a rope collapsed the front of my cart.

So I unbolted the front and beat it back into shape.

After bolting it back on it is ready for more abuse.

Jay with his new pet, Ghost - just a puppy still.

Claire's dog, Fennigan, looks on.

The video cameras over at the Clubhouse were taking terrible pictures.  I got four new cameras but was surprized when I found out that the old camers worked fine with a new power supply.

So I returned the new cameras and just got one new large power supply.  Then I hooked up the four old camera plugs to the new power supply and everything worked fine.