This past Sunday (after the big wedding on Saturday) Sarah and I continued working on the front porch, hoping that it'd be a day of just painting.   But as is the case with these old houses, the simple painting project turned into a bigger one after we uncovered some significant rot in the porch's box beam.  After tearing out the rotten board and blocking and making a quick Lowe's run we spent the rest of the day cutting, priming and nailing in the new board.  It wasn't as easy as I was thinking and took the rest of the afternoon to finish (plus there's more for next weekend).  When 6:30 came around we were pretty much out of gas so decided to end the weekend with the first barbeque with our new grill.

The bracket on the corner is a complete goner but luckily the column is rot free.