Finally the week arrives when the plans made in May and getting rolled into implementation phase. This is one project I am glad is following a waterfall methodology.  First the concept to design, requirements gathered, and actors lined up. Then the detailed design with inventory of materials and tools needed. Finally, the implementation and deployment. Thankfully any other methodology and the project timeline would slip, deadlines would have been messed up and cost increased exponentially. But, it all worked..... All the planning makes sense, and emotionally ready to be flexible with minor alterations.

Anyways, day 1 begins like any other project with cleanup crap that is there already. Cleanup begins in all earnest, tall dandelions get the axe and say bye-bye to the dead lawn. It would have taken me a week to clean up the mess, had I done it on my own. But three workmen cleaning up goes pretty darn fast. Just the clean up brightened up the space so much.