House work Update

We have been hard at work so far with our first weekend as homeowners, I have my first of many blisters I am sure. I really like how this project turned out so I wanted to share, even though it is fairly minor and we have done lots of other things inside the house as well. Those are still to come.

Remember our sad broken mail box?

Well after some serious hard work, some sheer determination, a really big crowbar (read 4-foot long) from my neighbor, and a big drill bit. We got the bricks down and through the 6-8 inches of poured concrete in order to get the post up for our new mailbox. Here is what it looks like now.

We will be adding in flowers into the newly created flower bed and maybe some sort of cap stones on top to dress it up a little more, but it looks pretty good now, and we can get mail!

All in all it was a lot more work than expected, but totally worth the effort, although next time i think i will find someone with a jack hammer...

more house updates to come once the other rooms we are working on come together.