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| The new door is on the side of the house and leads directly from the guest suite around to the back yard patio. |
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| Travis cast the first shadow in the bedroom. We built the rough-opening. No comment on it from Travis. . . but he's pretty quiet. |
Breaking open a stucco wall, setting and sealing an exterior door and restoring three layers of stucco is a bit beyond our pay grade. . . so we invited Travis over to the new house in Southern California to help out. He came highly recommended by the superintendent who managed the original construction, so we were confident we got the right man. We did.
Travis had no problem carefully slipping our new door into its new slot, piece of cake for a pro with 25 years in the trades. What he couldn't figure out is how the Minnesota Gophers could play the Ohio Buckeyes today in 23 degree temperatures.
"How can that be," the lifetime California resident wondered. "It can be a home field advantage," we said, trying to put a positive spin on it.
Travis is working in long pants for only the second time this season. It's 69 degrees this afternoon but he figured jeans were a good bet when working with stucco.
He'll have the door buttoned up and the scratch coat of stucco applied by sundown.
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| Grand Opening. |
