A busy week!

A lot of work has taken place at the Lake this week, as you can tell from the new vehicles parked in our "driveway":

Or maybe you'd like to take this number for a spin?

First order of business - outside basement stairs....I'm not very good at rotating images, so just rotate your neck.

Quite an improvement from the existing metal winding staircase.  We can now drop the life insurance policies we took out on all guests, in case they dared to visit the basement.

Secondly, construction of new roof lines. Suddenly, we can see in "real life" what we've been trying to imagine from the plans!

Here's the back of the house before:

That's the kitchen door and windows.  The bump out with the flat roof is Ginny's (Mark's mom) room .

Here we are now:

Wow! There will be an additional bedroom upstairs which will Alex's new room.  Happy birthday, Al!

The front of the house is changing, too.  From the Lake side, our cottage looked like this:

We love our front porch which is especially great for hummingbird watching, reading good books, and cocktail hour.  On the second story, the three windows to the left are our room; Maddy's room is the bank of windows to the right.  That second story roof looks a bit saggy!

This should fix that saggy roof:

I know I'm an English teacher and ought to have better vocabulary but - wow, again!

Looking out from the second story, our views of the Lake were limited.  I think that's about to change.

Next week, we might be under roof.  We'll keep you posted!