So, last year our porch became an 'outdoor room', thanks to the new building that went up next door and walled in our precious outdoor space, leaving only a patch of sky.  All last summer the flowers I'd planted, the thrift-store chair finds, and the cute green watering can I'd gotten for the little one became covered in dust, splattered with plaster, and riddled with nails and other random construction site garbage.  It was a bummer.

 But the guys who built the place next door came over...