More Demolition Stories

 The steps got to this point and Jeremy wasn't quite sure if he was going to get them out. That front layer was 5 bricks deep. He spent a week thinking and watching videos and on Saturday he went back out.

 

He and Josiah got the inside layer out pretty quickly.

 I went on to weed a flowerbed and pretty soon Jeremy had something to show me. That last layer was completely broken up.

And Josiah pushed over the last side.

We loaded the bricks into the trailer and they put the dirt back.

Now it looks like we've never had steps. lol.

The afternoon that Janell, Meghan and all the kids were over, I mentioned that the privacy fence was the next thing to go. Janell and I started looking at what it would take to take it down and one thing led to the next. Aliza kicked out the bottom of the slats.

Aliza then loosened the middle and then Janell could lift the slat off the top nails. When the boys came around trying to figure out what we were doing we said, "We are just 3 grown women trying to take down a fence."

Getting the frame down involved Renee, Anna and Gideon.

Then we had to dig out the posts which had about 12 inches of cement and another 18 inches of post below the cement. Gideon and Anna started the digging.

 

Gideon and Josiah ultimately got that post out together.

There was one post remaining. Janell had to leave. Meghan kept looking at that post and decided that we needed to get it out. She started digging...and digging...and digging. I helped a little but was mostly moral support. lol We got it to the point where the post was very wiggly, but we could not lift it out. Caleb, Josiah and Gideon came and they pulled it out for us. Project accomplished.

The next day was another nice afternoon that we were home so the sandbox frame was on the agenda.

The first side came out pretty easily.

The kids did the second side completely on their own.

Then Isaiah decided to buy himself in dirt.

The last side was hard. It was screwed into the deck steps. Josiah and worked and worked to get that board off. I saw so much of Jeremy in him. He would think and try something and then try something else. There came a point where I realized he was not going to give up.

I really thing that board had won. I went inside and pretty soon I heard celebration--he got the board off one screw. It wasn't too much longer that he had that board completely off.

I'm glad Anna could help with the sandbox. She had been pretty sad about losing the sandbox. Being involved in the process made it much easier for her.