Installation of the new front door in early January
I've been living in a bubble for a couple of weeks. Literally. The contractor draped the front of the house with heavy plastic. The theory was that the guys would be warmer while they worked. If it's sunny, it will help; it hasn't been sunny.
One complication is that it catches the snow, (falling snow, sliding snow, melting snow, frozen melted snow) between the pergola beams, which gets quite heavy; heavier than the pergola was designed to support. After the first big snow, week before last, R laboriously knocked off it from the underside.
About 8" of snow fell at the palace last night and this morning. We were getting psyched up to go deal with it (rather) late this morning, when someone started pounding on the door. It was Adam (the guy in orange above) and Ramon (carrying the back end of the door). They'd been sent out on snow detail. Because we live in a bubble, we didn't realize until much later in the afternoon that they'd also cleared the driveway and sidewalk. These guys rock.
As soon as the bubble comes off, I will make some photos of the glass that went into the lights (the holes) in the door. For a while we had cardboard and masonite, but the glass inserts were installed last week. The photos will look much nicer without the bubble background. I won't miss the bubble. I might miss the guys, even if they didn't shovel for me.
