Garage. April 2013
Completed foundation & crawl space. April 2013
Site of future stairs to the garage door. April 2013
Concrete-block wall & site of future parking pad. April 2013
Top of wall & terrace. April 2013
The foundation was finished in early April 2013. Much of what we hoped would be a large crawl space beneath the house was filled with dirt. The sales agent had told us that access to the crawl space would be through a trap door in a closet. That seemed an unappealing place to store things.
By the middle of April, the concrete floor of the garage had been poured. The most interesting new feature was a concrete-block wall behind the house which formed a terrace about 6 feet above the level of the rear alley. The wall has 2 tiers, with 2 feet of planting space in the lower tier & more planting space planned in the upper tier, between the wall & a concrete pad, which has not yet been poured. This additional garden space was very exciting for Jordan, who started thinking of potential plants immediately.