Neither Wind nor Hail

As the first big rainstorm of the season moved toward shore, Robert and Vidal got the addition weatherproof-ish. In a single day they plunked in four pristine new windows:

Less than an hour after I took this photo, Robert and Vidal finished slapping a big honking sliding-glass door in that spot:

The stucco guys arrived and nailed chicken wire over the black weatherproofing stuff. This addition is starting to look handsome and solid:

Late in the afternoon as I came down the porch steps with a basket of laundry, I was momentarily disoriented. The tiny, scruffy yard of my recent memory had grown, and was planted with flowers and fruit trees.

Oh, yeah: I forgot. My neighbor had arranged to put our shared rotten fence out of its misery, to make way for something better.

Peekaboo: