Some of you will remember the “Wee Beastie” post of two years ago, in which a tree-destroying vehicle shows up on our neighbor’s lawn and the next day begins some deforestation leading up to demolition of their split-level ranch, to be replaced with better, as you’ll see. As I got into my car to go to work each morning (and sometimes on weekends), I’d snap a picture of their progress (though the intervals lengthened as the process wore on — it kind of ground to a halt last spring for reasons unknown before a final landscaping spate). The hydroseeded front lawn is where I leave it last September.
The curious factor for me is that their children are coming of college age — arguably an odd time to decide to rebuild, especially at such scale. The in-ground pool needed $40k of work, Tricia gleaned third hand, so I guess that’s reason enough for some to build themselves a half-million manse — kinda like buying a new (and much bigger) car ’cause you need brake work …
michael
As I left your house after breakfast on Sunday I thought to myself how unattractive that house is. I guess I’m not a fan of those huge doric columns.
jennifer
You think your dislike is due to the columns?
Jen
I’ll wager your next picture will show a For Sale sign in the front yard.
rakkity
Quite an impressive quasi-time-lapse documentation sequence of suburban destruction, Maestro Kibbe! Sad to say, Boulder also has a few of these destroy-and-replace missions. The city fathers and mothers here are struggling with ways to prevent people from wreaking such uglification projects, but haven’t been very successful.