The porta potty has arrived, I am not sure what they did for the first 2 weeks?

Moving right along with renovations, the foundation is taking shape. The previous large hole in the basement wall is almost filled. The inside is completely gutted. Found in the attic was the title to the home, unfortunately it did not photograph well. The title to the home contains a patent for land which was given by Thomas Jefferson!!!!!!

Yikes, history erased in a day!!!!

Ah, isn't it nice. The lovely 1900 addition is now history, a simple hole in the stone basement wall is all that is left. None of the rats who currently were living in the addition were seen today. They either know the demolition was coming or were registering to vote in the upcoming democratic primary.

The iron fence circa 1870 was slightly mangled in the effort, hopefully the GGC will not notice. I still have yet to find out what happens if the GCC dictates are not followed?

I got the call today, they are "officially" starting

Well, we will call him Ben ( actually his real name) called and said they were officially starting construction. I have decided to recycle existing brick and beams from the old ceiling (130 year old wood!!!). Al Gore informed me the recycling I am doing will give me 50 carbon credits. With my newly acquired carbon credits am either going to cut down 5 acres of old growth redwood or "slash and burn" 25 acres of amazon rain forest.

The start has been slow, the German Village Commission (also called the german gestapo commission and will be abbreviated as GGC from here on) has had many constructive ideas. In fact they have had over 5 years of constructive ideas with the people who bought the property in 2005. The people who bought it in 2005 were flippers so I cannot feel too sorry for them.

The architect, who I will refer to as the architect has been interesting to work with these last few month. I actually purchased the property in late september 2009. More on this later, stay tuned. Off to walk the dog!