Door Adjustment

It's sort of hard to explain what the problem was to begin with, but the door leading from our den to the new storage area above the garage was installed wrong.  They reused the door that used to go to the closet in our master bedroom, but they didn't take the moulding off the frame before putting it in its new location.  So the door stuck out about a quarter inch.  Instead of doing the easy thing and installing the door without moulding, they plastered the drywall out so it looked like the wall was flush with the door.  Anyway, this was a problem so we spent last weekend fixing it and then we painted the rest of the den wall and now everything's all pretty!

Drainage, Part 2

We dug out a drainage channel in front of the storage unit and connected it to the pipe we hooked up last week.  This one was a lot harder because we had to make it deeper so it would lay in front of the cement footing and there were all these GIGANTIC rocks in the way.

But it works real well, tested by a HUGE storm that raced through the Mid-Atlantic two days ago.  All the excess water settled away from the house at the exit of the drain pipe!  Our house was essentially unaffected by the event, but some of our friends weren't so lucky and were out of power for a 100 degree weekend.  No huge catastrophes or injuries for anyone I know, thankfully.