86'n It

Here is the cool wisteria wine that is on our house. It didn't flower too long this year because we got an early frost and I didn't know to cover it. But I am looking forward to coming years because it looks amazing and smells great. Here's a pic of it crawling up the house. This is mid-removal.




The real issue was the it had crawled up the house by twisting around out cable line. I had to unhook the cable line then manually untwist it from the vines. Man, that wisteria is so grabby! I wasn't afraid of falling of the roof because I am pretty sure that it would have wrapped right around me a saved me.


Anyway, I spend a good amount of time Saturday untangling and relocating it from the side of the house to a little "fence" that we built. It looks sort of weird, but at least we can check off something on the LONG pre-painting prep list. After the house is painted, we will be putting one vine on the side of the back porch and the other along a nicer fence running into the back yard.


I also removed all the unused cables and telephone lines from all over the side of the house. Marc was hard at work finishing the final 2 porch columns. Then I helped lay the final piece of sub-floor and put in the trim blocking... We are finally almost at a stopping point with the porch prior to painting. It looks great, too bad the stinking camera wouldn't work! Urgh... I'll post pics when I can.