We'll have lots of photo catch up to do if I can ever get back to Maine from Florida. All flights up the East Coast were canceled today and I am waiting to see if they cancel my flight tomorrow.
I spoke with Greg this afternoon and asked how Sunnyside was looking and he said that the upstairs is completely framed out, bedroom and bathrooms and the new hall floor has been put down ("new" being a relative term here since Josh, our young contractor toady, cut and installed reused boards from some wall we took out previously. I texted Josh to ask him to add framing out the new dormer shapes upstairs and filling in the window hole in the second bedroom. I am excited to see 90 percent of the framing job completed. Now for electric and plumbing!
Just so you have a few pictures for the day, and for those of you renting Sunnyside who are nervous about what we can do, here are some lovely photos of the house where we currently reside, which is about 4 miles south of Bayside.

This is the front of our house the day we moved into it in 2001

And the house a few days after we cut down all the trees in front and planted the clump birch in the garden. That birch is now over double in size

The ugly back of the house. This is about the photo that the real estate agent used in the materials to sell the house before we bought it. I kept telling my broker that I wasn't interested. You might just be able to see the sagging porch, for which we had estimates as high as $18,000 to $21,000 to fix. We went with the guy who charged us $1800.00. In this photo, the house is surrounded by about 7 trees that could easily come out, adding bright sunlight to the back yard.

Well, after we saw the possibilities, we jumped on the place and this is what it looks like today.

This is one of the lovely things that we had to fix before we painted.

We ended up essentially replacing the north wall of the house. (at least that wall is insulated)

Ok, ok so for an even more stunning contrast, I want to show you pictures of the living room at Little Bohemia.

This is the before picture of the oh so depressing room downstairs off the kitchen



This is a during photo of the destruction and renovation of the living room\

And this is a photo of the room after the walls were done and the new furniture installed.


This is a photo of what the only bedroom in Little Bohemia looked like, a built in bunk bed from the '60s. I really wanted to keep it, because it was totally charming and wonderfully built (and almost exactly what I want to do in one of the bedrooms in Sunnyside for overflow guests), but I couldn't rent it so well.

And the finished product.