The Durocher Family: Battle of the Power Tools

I'm getting frustrated with Blogger....if you have suggestions for a different website, please tell me. But.....this is what I've been using and, for now, will use to share updated pictures.

Unfortunately, Dereck's phone completely shattered and won't work, therefore we've lost a good chunk of the photos from "The beginning" to the now phase. Sorry! Atlas, there are worse things in life that can happen so I won't cry over it.

Here are recent photos of what has occurred at the house.

Dereck furring out the wall (if you don't know what that is,
check out this)

Dereck framing out for the Bathroom window

Tada - an installed window in the Bathroom with security bars still attached on the outside

One of the many fruit trees we planted in January
that is starting to grow (That round cinderblock
is something new I learned about down here in Phoenix.
It's used to help retain the water for a plant.)

Please excuse the constant disaster of messes: A panoramic view of the backyard currently
The right area there against the white and pink cinder block and chain link fence is where the illegal apartment and old dilapidated sheds used to sit. All of those have been torn down. You can barely see a line of fruit trees (look for the black/cinder rings) along the red cinder block wall on the left side.

The location of the torn down illegal apartment to the side of the house

A panoramic view of the front yard and house

Remember the before picture from the previous post?? Check out the before picture of the house using Google Maps Street View. As you can see the humongous tree to the left of the house has been removed, the front porch as been restored to it's original intent (we removed the french doors the previous owner had installed), removed many fake flowers (the previous owner thought it made the yard look pretty), removed many cinder blocks used to "emphasize" plant areas, etc. Oh, and don't forget, we took out the basketball hoop. A neighbor down the street saw it and asked if they could have it. Of course, have it at no charge.

This is the current view from the front door into the house

Panoramic view of the current inside

The electrical switch Dereck installed

The furring strips installed in the guest bedroom, plus the new window

Dereck is working on installing the frame for the new bathroom window. He is standing on the old tub. Please ignore the tool hanging in the most questionable location according to where I took the photo from. I didn't notice that until way too late.