The 123 - More Pictures & Progress

Looking from the back of the building, that huge rounded clump is the probably-mulberry tree. If you look close, you can just barely see PC's while t-shirt there by the corner of the building.

We had to climb through it (PC threaded the really long extension ladder up through it and using a combination of ladder rungs and limbs, we were able to get on top) to inspect the roof. Let me take a minute to say that the view is SPECTACULAR! (Someday in the next few years there is going to be a deck up there….before I get too off topic, I’ll stop, but I’ll write more about the plans for the third floor and roof later).

Here's a picture of the roof, too:

Look at all that stuff growing up there! The poor old 123 was being attacked from below AND above! I have not been back up there since PC cut it all away from the building (I’m not sure the ladder goes all the way up!) so I don’t have pictures from that high up. You can get a pretty good idea from the backgrounds of the other pictures.

Sadly, just about everything is gone, but it had to be done to prevent further damage to the 123. With building health as the number one priority, however, it will get landscaped again when we start building decks back there. Yet another project to write about….

For those of you who have been reading past posts: The electric had to be remounted onto the back of the 123. The vines and growth –ironically not our jungle, but the neighbor’s overgrowth- had pulled the weatherhead out of the brick and that had to be fixed before they’d turn the electric back on here at the 2nd floor. So, yep, I have electric up here (as you could tell from the scary-no-more refrigerator pic).

More on the 123 later…..