The grill looking like some kind of mushroom:
The sun came out at one point, how weird does this look?
The car, I think. It looks like a marshmallow with side mirrors:
The calvalry. Matt on Kubby (the Kubota) and his dad Ray on the John Deere:
And, finally, our house, garage, and greenhouse as seen from the road.
The pole fell over:
The pole gets put back up:
It doesn't work. Thank god, I can just see the thing slipping and getting launched by the backhoe into the air and coming down on the truck in the background. Just our luck. 
Then, he decides to take the bull by the horns and just PUSH it over.
This worked.
He-man is very happy about this. But now we have concrete all over the floor and need to clean it....again.
The I-beam needed to be cut in half. He tried the Saws-all (Sawzall?), but it wouldn't cut. It was starting to burn up....
So he borrowed the torch from the garage across the street...
But proceeded to have a lot of trouble getting it adjusted to where he needed it to be....
So we got the garage guy (and our neighbor, for now) to do it. 
The next installment is the one we've all been waiting for: CONCRETE!!! Finally!!!
Fortunately, we had someone come along that was pleased as punch to help.
Our friend, Angie, was just thrilled to come over and break things. She wanted to break things sooooo bad.....
And break things she did....for over 2 hours, Angie swung that 20lb sledge and broke up block...
She only really stopped for a few breathers and a pizza break.....
...and to put some bandaids on her blisters....
She even worked at breaking up the lentil, but Matt wound up doing that. It had some rebar going through it, so it was very very sturdy:
Surveying Angie's good work:
There is another version of Take This Hammer here, along with a couple other 'work' songs.
Pushing.....
And here it goes!
Kerwhump. Well, that one is done.
Our small, furry roadblock:
You can see here that Matt has punched through all the places that were soft. That way we can visually identify them and stay away from them. He did partially fall through one hole up to his knee. He has a unique way of finding them!
Into the pickup the shingles went and down to the dump! Took two trips and 1260lb cost us around $50. Not bad.
More shingle ripping:
We took up the rotting wood first, then moved on to the more solid plywood. 
You can see the more rotted stuff here. It was like sand, it just fell away when you touched it.
We also found out that the roof of the garage was attached to the building...by absolutely nothing. Just the weight of the roof, that's it. The wood is not connected, not even touching the concrete block in this area, as you can see in this picture:
I just love it when he sits like this, I think it is so cute.
One of my jobs was to remove the nails.
Just one more bit to go here:
Now, finally we have good light in the garage!
Matt's mom even came over to help. Matt taught her a new curse.*
Matt decided to use the joists (above) for concrete forms, which is something else we won't have to buy now.
Matt did the digging with Kubby while Joe actually removed the dirt to his dump truck and took it to my inlaws and dumped it. It will be their new veggie patch come spring. (See the Pepsi bottles in the middle left of the picture? That was Joe bait. He loves Pepsi).
Matt terraced the back, and it was calling for rain so we covered it all up with plastic to keep it from washing.
It added about 20' of usable space to the back of the house.
The other side of the garage looks like this right now, but this will be where the garage door will go, so it will have to come out sometime in the near future. I'm not sure why he didn't do it all now.
The wall that was bowing out so badly, and the exposed outside of the root cellar.
Notice that the blocks are all cracked?
In part 4, I'll talk a bit about our go-around with the building inspector!!
