The plan (as of Tuesday) for today was to fill up the planter boxes a couple inches with pebbles (to avoid too much water on the roots of our plants) and then proceed to fill them up with topsoil so we can start planting. Then, we were going to haul a bunch of topsoil from the neighbors house to the front yard and at the same time order more topsoil for the front yard (we only have about 5 yards at the neighbors house…a dump truck holds about 20 yards) and get a few estimates for sod (it rains so much the seed would just get washed away) and arrange for all of them to show up the same day so we could spread the topsoil and lay the sod without all of our soil getting washed down the hill. If you don’t think it rains hard here, check out the Puerto Rican weather we had today…hard rain but not much wind and it only lasted about 45 minutes.

Back to the plan….eh hem…it never happened. But here is how it went down.

Last night, at 5:00pm, a concrete guy that we have been trying to track down for over a month stopped by and said he could bring his diamond bit orbital floor sander over to the house and polish the floors downstairs. But, he could only work for the next two days. So…of course, you have to get things done when the contractors are available, so I told him to come on by at 10:00am and we would have two rooms ready for him to sand. The plan was to move everything into the finished rooms and then do those floors…but we have a lot of stuff…and most of it is heavy…so I pulled an audible.

Jerry and I cleared out the two rooms, Mark stopped by and helped me move all of the hurricane shutters upstairs to under the deck, and we started building the shed that is going to go under the new Master Bedroom Closet. The video below was from this morning at 10:00am (oh, the cement guy never showed up and said he’d be here on Saturday morning instead) showing the work we did and still had to do. By the end of the day, we dug out the footings, poured the concrete and framed up the shed. I’ll show you more pictures tomorrow. For now, check out the video of our downstairs walk through.