our neighbors must hate us

we don't have a lot of pictures from this weekend, but it doesn't mean we were sitting around drinking beer and eating chips (although that would be so nice right about now). every day we started by 7am and a power tool was in use by 8. we finished the new laundry room plumbing and started electrical work (laying the junction boxes, cutting holes for recessed lighting, installing recessed cans, pulling wire, etc.).

sunday morning we got our new window.



rich (our friend doing the heavy-lifting: electrical, plumbing, moving of load-bearing walls, kicking our butts, etc.) busted out the angle grinder at 8am and cut the stucco to remove the old window. we were expecting the cops to show up for a noise complaint but none did. yeehaw!

here's our new window getting prepped for staining and sealing.



we know all of you out in internet-land must wonder how much trash this kind of job generates. it's a lot. here's half (we already took half to the dump last weekend).





in this final picture you can see our old window. buh bye!