We have been preparing the front yard to become an addition since early April. Today it went from looking like this:

to looking like this:

Exhilarating in a fingernail biting kinda way. Michael and I have a lot of learning ahead of us, and a lot of physical labor.

The addition hopefully will provide a number of benefits.

Irene will have an in-law apartment that is closer to ground level, eliminating as many stairs and narrow doorways from her life as possible.
We will have storage space indoors so that we can bring our belongings in from the pole barn.
We will empty the pole barn so we can use it as work space.
We will have room to have visitors!
We can have family over for holiday dinners and seat them all in one room.
I’ll have room for spinning wheels, looms, and related equipment.

This may take us several years to complete, but it is exciting finally to begin.