weekend wrap up | hellllo, warm weather

This weekend was buuuusy. Like, on your feet non-stop kind of busy and all of it focused on home projects and chores.  Maybe it was the warm weather or the never-ending sunshine, but I felt completely okay with spending our weekend working away.  We had to cancel anything fun on our calendars this weekend to stay on track which means there's a craft show in the Petoskey area that had my name written all over it that we had to miss. Oh the sacrifices of owning a home.

 

This weekend we were tracking to put up the first of our new siding on the basement walkout level, but with one step forward, we were taking five steps back.  I mean, if you want to see how a house shouldn't be constructed, come on over, and we can show you countless examples around our house.  Sometimes Joe and I just scratch our heads and wonder what the builder was thinking when we uncover all these rookie mistakes.  I could write a book on it there are so many.

 

But as we started prepping for the basement siding, we found water issues from the floors above.  Water = Havoc.  Water is your enemy in the construction world.

 

We Joe worked fast at redoing the flashing detail at the deck above our basement to redirect any future water out and away from the house. But it still took two solid days to address it and a prayer that the wood that's already rotted and we physically can't access will hold out. Maybe we could've gotten the work done in one day, but when you have a 2 year old that wants to "help" and me being tethered to Linden's schedule, not a lot of progress gets done quickly.

 

Don't get me wrong, the boys and I had a blast around the yard and going on countless walks just so Conner could watch for any trucks that came driving down the road.  And now that we've had a sweet taste of warm weather, bring on Summer!