For those who have been wondering, we’ve made a big decision, football-wise.  Since we’re in Colorado, we figure we can root for the Broncos occasionally.  That’s not to say we’re planning on becoming fans, exactly, but what could it hurt to support the home team?  So long as I don’t have to wear anything orange and so long as they aren’t playing the Seahawks, obviously.  At least we don’t live anywhere near San Francisco.  I can’t imagine how anyone actually cheers for the ’49ers.

Which leads me to our latest little setback.  I think I mentioned that I had a satellite dish for the RV that was tied in to our home DirecTV service for all of the cable channels, while I was able to get one of the local network stations using the antenna.  So, there we were on Sunday….  tuning in to watch the Seahawks’ first pre-season game.  Since our base service is still out of Washington, all of the local, Seattle channels still show up on our menu, even though we can’t watch them since we’re so far away.  Everyone else here in Colorado was watching the game on the NFL Network, so we tuned in, too, only to find out that the game was blacked out for us because it was showing in the local market on channel 13.  Remember how I just explained that we don’t get the local channels?  Yep, no football for us last weekend.  Sandi spent 3 hours on the phone yesterday talking to a wide variety of customer service reps trying to get our address changed so we can watch “local stations” here, but by the end of the day, we didn’t have any satellite reception at all.  A tech came out this morning and got us back up and running, so the great football drought of 2017 is officially over.

We’ve been making some real and visible progress on the house, which is a great feeling. We’ve also had a bit of a reprieve from the rains, which has certainly helped, too.  The past three days have been dry and pleasant, save for a very brief drizzle each afternoon, so opening big holes in the side of the house hasn’t been quite so dicey this week.

We removed the 6′ wide, glass front door today and added some framing to narrow the opening to accommodate vinyl, 5′ wide French doors with the blinds inside the glass.  It took us a little extra time to complete since a piece of the floor needed to be repaired and we moved a floor vent over about 12″.

Before and after shots.  We ran out of steam this afternoon, so we’ll piece in the vinyl siding on the left side of the door tomorrow to finish it up, but we really like the way it came out.

Yesterday, we finished the mudroom entrance by adding a new entry door and replacing one of the broken windows.  It means one less piece of plywood on the outside of the house and the glass really brightens up the space.

We’ve begun framing a new entry closet and in the next few days, we’ll be making a few changes to the kitchen so we’ll have the space ready when the cabinets arrive.