Ready, Steady...

The nearly ubiquitous construction storage container arrived today, just as we were holding our weekly progress meeting with our builder, John Hammerschmidt. The (chain link!) protective fencing around the trees was up. After a couple of snapshots of that fencing, John was off to the building department to pull our permits.

Today was the last of relative calm before the storm. After the initial interior 'pre-demo' work, the past two weeks we've been holding for the permits. The palm tree in the back yard was removed, as was the aging camphor on the west side. Even more visible demolition will begin next week (eeek!) as now the exterior stucco will come down.

Laura and I are both pleasantly surprised that we're still calm and steady ourselves while our home's been getting ripped open.