He Did It!

The process that was officially started on Saturday was mostly finished today. I never thought it would really get done in a weekend. What a handy guy my husband is!

Whoa, look, there's a hole in our wall!

Now it's a totally naked wall!
Uhoh!!! Turns out there is like a 3 inch lip of concrete coming up from the foundation. What the frick! Ron was freakin and saying he would have to rent something to cut concrete, but I suggested a landing like step that can go all the way across the wall, and that turned out to be the plan we are going with. Gotta think outside the box sometimes, or would that be think of the box? haha, sorry.
This picture doesn't look like much, but the insulation is gone and there is a first long verticle cut into the wood.

Oh nooooo! Now there really is a hole in our house!

At least it's a neat hole now. :)
Hole from the outside - um, yeah, we are going to need some steps there too, eh?
Hey, a framed hole. And, um, it's getting dark, better hurry!
Woohoo, doors! So the rest of the wall has not drywall, but it still ain't a gaping hole in the side of the house after just one day! My fun part lies ahead. Hmmm, think we will have to paint the whole room. And what to do with the landing step? Visions of all the articles I have seen about painting floors to look like rugs come to mind....
On a total side note, we went to this super cool arts and crafts thing downtown during the day. I wish I had the camera, but Ron really wanted to document the doors. We saw tons of artisans at work - potters, spinners, woodworkers, sculpters, glassblowers. It was cool because so many of them had things that turned, so we talked about how useful spinning is. And then we hung out at the playground for awhile and I met this awesome family. They had an older girl and younger boy. The boy had kindof longish hair and was wearing one of his sister's old dresses! The dad says he just loves them, and they have just stopped correcting everybody that thinks he is a girl. How awesome of them to let him make choices like that! I love Portland!!!