Ah, the Joys of owning a home..

Did you get the sarcasm there?  Actually, this is more about the joys of owning a large dog who doesn't know how big she is.  For years the pets have abused our back patio door--Alice climbs the screen, Indy has been known to push the door off track in her rush to get outside...but the final straw last summer was when Liberty decided to go through the screen.  Now, if she had just gone through the screen, ripping it off the door, but leaving the door frame intact, we would have been fine. However, Liberty believes in doing things right...she not only ripped the screen out of the frame, but also, at the same time, bent the door frame so badly it couldn't be fixed (d'oh.). Well, fixed correctly that is...I can do (temporary) wonders with duct tape.  We finished last season and started this spring with the messed up door...but after Alice escaped through the broken door (and then couldn't figure out how to get back in), we broke down and bought a new door.  This time we went for the heavy duty frame--guaranteed against all kinds of disasters (well, maybe not against dogs, but still...).  We proudly brought our new door home and began to install it...only to find it was too wide for the space.  Blink....blink.. No, we didn't buy the wrong size door...there wasn't enough space between the door frame and the patio wall for the new, heavy duty door....AGGGGHHHH!!!  This was, of course, late on Sunday afternoon, so we put the door (and the receipt) in the garage to return later.  While the door sat in the garage, we had a moment of inspiration...Why not just make the opening wider by chipping off part of the wall?

So a couple weekends later, this is how Mr. Ranch spent his Father's Day afternoon...chipping away at the patio wall. After a couple more minor issues with the door, it is installed and we now can have a nice cross breeze through the house again.  Now, what project should we tackle next?