Apparently you can't do anything in our house without the porch looking like crap. All the wood we'd pulled out of the living room was tossed into huge piles on the front porch for later de-nailing and stacking. Oh and every time we'd try to level our living room the porch would just droop a little more and drag the front corner of the living room with it. Well enough of that, it's time to level that baby up. So we went to Home Depot and bought some 4x4 pre-treated posts.

Then we stacked a bunch of wood up, propped up our bottle jacks and lifted the porch. Errek enlightened me later that what we were doing was very dangerous, but at the time...well, ignorance is bliss.

All told we lifted the far corner of the porch about 5 inches. Those dangling iron legs used to be what held up the porch. Damn!

So, can you tell the difference?

Before:

After:

So there you have it, a perfectly level white-trash front porch complete with wheel barrel and cat ass.

Apparently the new look is incredibly popular among neighborhood strays, and those knuckleheads are tough to please. Must be the cat ass.

Okay, that is all for now. Gawd, isn't that enough? Coming "soon" layered sub floors in the living room, drywall, a kitchen sink in the living room, a fully finished bathroom...mostly, maybe more but I'm living in the now...for now.

P.S. Happy Mother's Day to our biggest fan, my momma!