>... or at least the side yard.
>
>Door!

Congratulations! Did Ida cause you any grief?

>(Another payoff that will have to wait until next year is how much
>easier and quicker the new side door will make getting to the swimming
>pool in the side yard, but that's just an artifact of how pitifully
>short the outdoor pool season is at this latitude. By the time we
>made it to the door, that was already pretty well over for this year.)

Meanwhile, outdoor pool season continues apace down at my latitude. It's not projected to end until November, and even then we still get hot days in January and February.