Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
I'm back for a brief visit on FABO. - Thanks for all the concern over my absence. I've been AWOL from all car activity while concentrating on house renovation. Despite all of our efforts the mayor & city council still are harassing us and aren't dropping their threat to have the house burnt down. I can't afford the legal bills but it looks as though we may have to get an attorney.
The weather continues to raise havoc with progress. So far we've concentrated on the exterior in hopes of having it done before the 100'+ temperatures and the mosquitoes roll in. This has been one of the rainiest years I can remember. We probably lost about 10 days of significant progress due to it.
Several of the neighbors have been very supportive of our efforts. I don't know if it benefits us in being able to keep the house but it has helped to keep us from getting completely discouraged.
We spent time doing some light landscape work. It may seem unimportant but I decided that I wanted to have the yard looking as good as possible (on the cheap) as I could.
The brick outside basement entry had been badly damaged when vandals had beat the door in. They actually broke a lot of the brick that held the door frame when they forced entry. I think they used a sledgehammer.
I tried to color match the brick foundation with a coat of new paint. I added the bird feeder to an old antenna mast that we cut off next to the house.
So far I only have one of the five basement windows replaced. I still want to re-do the mortar/concrete base by each one.
I bought a lot of colored tree bark ground covering for around the house. By purchasing torn bags from Menards I saved about 75%.
In addition to the main roofing on the house there are roofs over the bay windows that had to be re-done. The old tin/tar was bad and I even had to rebuild some of the structural wood beneath them.
Working with tar while on a ladder sucks.
I need to touch up the window in the front door. I was doing a faux stained glass treatment to it but some of it didn't turn out right.
There were several leaded glass windows in the house. I've been playing around with some of that faux stained glass color on them as well.
We bought a living room set and area rug off of Craigslist. The room is big. - 22 foot by 14 foot. I wanted to build a custom entertainment center along one of the walls and we were having trouble laying it out. The furniture helped me to envision where I needed to build.
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I'm back for a brief visit on FABO. - Thanks for all the concern over my absence. I've been AWOL from all car activity while concentrating on house renovation. Despite all of our efforts the mayor & city council still are harassing us and aren't dropping their threat to have the house burnt down. I can't afford the legal bills but it looks as though we may have to get an attorney.
The weather continues to raise havoc with progress. So far we've concentrated on the exterior in hopes of having it done before the 100'+ temperatures and the mosquitoes roll in. This has been one of the rainiest years I can remember. We probably lost about 10 days of significant progress due to it.
Several of the neighbors have been very supportive of our efforts. I don't know if it benefits us in being able to keep the house but it has helped to keep us from getting completely discouraged.
We spent time doing some light landscape work. It may seem unimportant but I decided that I wanted to have the yard looking as good as possible (on the cheap) as I could.
The brick outside basement entry had been badly damaged when vandals had beat the door in. They actually broke a lot of the brick that held the door frame when they forced entry. I think they used a sledgehammer.
I tried to color match the brick foundation with a coat of new paint. I added the bird feeder to an old antenna mast that we cut off next to the house.
So far I only have one of the five basement windows replaced. I still want to re-do the mortar/concrete base by each one.
I bought a lot of colored tree bark ground covering for around the house. By purchasing torn bags from Menards I saved about 75%.
In addition to the main roofing on the house there are roofs over the bay windows that had to be re-done. The old tin/tar was bad and I even had to rebuild some of the structural wood beneath them.
Working with tar while on a ladder sucks.
I need to touch up the window in the front door. I was doing a faux stained glass treatment to it but some of it didn't turn out right.
There were several leaded glass windows in the house. I've been playing around with some of that faux stained glass color on them as well.
We bought a living room set and area rug off of Craigslist. The room is big. - 22 foot by 14 foot. I wanted to build a custom entertainment center along one of the walls and we were having trouble laying it out. The furniture helped me to envision where I needed to build.
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