Eagle Project

Ross's eagle project was to prepare a home to receive help from "Mormon Helping Hands."  He had to take down a dilapidated wall and replace it with siding, so his house could get a fresh coat of paint, grade the yard to prepare it to receive rocks (also for "Mormon Helping Hands") and remove his "fence" (which was a combination of iron rods, chain link and steel doors) Those came down - and a chain link fence went up. So here is the yard "before" (the level between the yard and the sidewalk was about a foot difference, the yard had to come down to be level with the retaining wall in order for the rock to stay in the yard and not spill over to the sidewalk.

here are some kids digging out the fence and bringing
the grade down.

Here is a view from the sidewalk of the modge-podge of fence...steel doors, iron and chain link between the two.











Here are some of the boys moving a steel door - they were some pretty heavy buggers!












Below is a "before" of the house - where the wood had rotted away and/or fallen off?  We took this wall down and put up the siding (which was difficult, because the 2x4s did not have consistent spacing and - if you see toward the bottom, they didn't always go from top to bottom, in one board...



below is a nice "before" of the front view of the house and yard.

 

And below me now is the "AFTER" picture, with rock in and house painted and fence put back up!