The new grass I planted last fall is greener than ever – even had to mow this weekend!

I cut down a grape vine and two trees behind the garage today to help protect my new shingles.  A lot more sun now – perhaps something will start to grow behind there now!

Front post for new mailbox:

New cedar mailbox:

Had them remove the front sidewalk and steps:

Drainage was much better!  Still pools up, but can drain and doesn’t end up in basement.  We received 2 inches in rain in under an hour:

Here is the first attempt at grading the new dirt after the excavation of the sewer:

Here are the results after a heavy downpour – The rain can’t drain with the existing steps and sidewalk, so it ends up in the basement seeping in through the walls:

Front half of house is done, need to do the back half and still need to replace the siding they took off of the garage.  Should be done tomorrow, then I can have the rain gutters installed and finish the fill-dirt in the front yard.

The garage side access door was put in, Garage shingles done – they still need to replace the siding.  Front side of house has the shingles removed:

Note it is so hot, when I took the camera outside, it fogged up!

Prior to the rain, they started on my garage roof:

Looks like there will be a little cleanup inside the garage when they are done.

At least this time it was not from a sewer backup!  We received a lot of rain in a short amount of time.  Driving home from work after dropping a co-worker off, the streets were flooding and driving was a challenge.  Combine that with my drain spouts that need replaced and the front lawn not being finished, this is what it looked like:

Front yard:

Basement:

At least all of the water was able to drain.  In the morning from 3:00am-6:30am I was mopping up the floor.  Just about back to normal now!