Doesn't it seem like so much goes into getting a project to a point where someone else can see results. It always looks so much worse before it starts to look better and that's where we are now. Take the front porch for example. Sadly this seems to be the only picture I have of the porch before the work on it started. I did get a shot of the west side of the porch. Check out those shifting bricks from the inside. A little straightening to do here. I wish I would have raised the camera to take in the column on this corner. You could literally look straight through from one side to the other because the mortar was completely GONE! The roof of the porch is now propped up and the columns have been dismantled. Wish I had been there to see that. I am sure they were able to just lift them off one by one. The dismantling continues. We had a few sunny days up to this point and then it turned rainy, cold and overcast. But the guys worked thro