Strapping young studs

I'm being adventurous today. I'm raiding Mom and Dad's food stores. I'm trying all their food in the freezer and pantry. Which could be dangerous. Everything is labeled in Chinese. I don't even know what I'm eating, let alone follow the instructions on the packages. So if I turn up dead, the package with the cute mouse logo is actually rat poison and not a breakfast drink.


This is what I stare at when I'm bored in my office. That is, when Charmed isn't on television. Then I stare at Alyssa Milano's peaks and valleys.


Beam taken down again. They fixed the tigger bouncy floor upstairs. I hope. They better have. There have been NO cracks in the walls of this house since it was built in 1917. They better be building to the same standards.


Yet more house is opened up and worked on. When is the destruction going to stop? They're tying the new outside staircase to the newly beefed up structure supporting the inside staircase with metal straps. Kinky.


And even more metal reinforcement for the header going over the barn doors. I wonder if all this metal will affect mobile phone reception?


The moat is filled in. Didn't we just do this not too long ago?


All filled in. For now. I wouldn't be surprised if they had to dig this out again.


Floating staircase. Needs more support. But don't we all?


Metal flashing against the wall. This will be covered up with stucco, but Davy will still be flashing the neighbors.