The part of Siobhan will be played by her dad Bob for the time being.

For those of you who are interested, I 'd like to post updates as we progress on the house.   Since 257 Beach 127 has been the home to so many of you, I think it's important to see the changes being made in a more timely fashion.  Please feel free to comment and ask questions if pictures or descriptions are not clear.  I will begin with before pictures.  Before we started on the second floor and before Sandy.

Welcome Home!  Come on in.

Siobhan's Bedroom.  Dressers made there way around the room.

Siobhan's bed.  She really loved that bed.

Bye Bye Bed.

Our Bedroom.  Our computer cabinet.  Man that thing was heavy.

We loved our be too. Also extremely heavy.

Fridge blocked the hallway.  Heavy.  ( I see a theme.)

Kitchen

Kitchen

Pantry.  Monica loved that washer and dryer. So much love.

Living Room.  The window on the right is the only one that blew in.  We found a huge planter in the bedroom that made it's way in.  It may have been the cause.

Treadmill.  Entertainment cabinet. Beautiful Sideboard we saved from the attic when we
renovated the first time in 1999.

Clean up time!!

Yuck!

That shop vac was used in the early stages of water coming in.
It didn't make it.

Adding insult to injury we lost over 50% of what we moved to the POD in the weeks leading up to the storm. We were set to move up the following weekend.  Sandy had other plans.

We tried to salvage items at first...

...we soon gave up.

Siobhan lost many a toy that day.  Don't get me wrong she still has plenty.
There were even a few boxes ready to be donated.  Who knew.

Books

Comics

How to...

Gutting Time!!!  We got all the stuff out but I was able to get a crew in to gut the place.
 It was a race against the mold. This was Siobhan's room

Living Room

Bedroom

Kitchen

We brought everything we thought we could salvage from the kitchen into the back yard.  Oh yeah... that's the pool in the background. It didn't make it.

Storage under the kitchen. Lawn mower, leaf blower and trimmer etc.

Chest Freezer

eeeewwwwwwee!

Pile

More pile

Then there's my shed

Tools and tools and storage and...oh right, tools.

and records?  Yep, my DJ years were over many years ago, but Sandy made sure of it.

Here is one of our greatest loses. We had the player piano from my childhood stored in the shed.  It needed a bunch of TLC before the storm, but now...we just don't know.  We don't have the heart to get rid of it...yet.

In an ironic twist of fate, this was the piano roll that was left in the piano.  I kid you not.

O.K., enough rehashing the bad, up next...moving forward.