The Storm Door (and a Patio Tour)

Not in time for the hurricane, but not too late either, the storm door was successfully installed today! And our only hurricane damage was a weird hole in our siding that exposed the Tyvek underneath. We found a small chunk of brick that was the likely culprit. Back to the storm door..... About a month ago we had a sideways rain. The rain was particularly insidious due to it's ability to go up the slight hill of our patio threshold and then into the kitchen. So we decided we'd like a storm door. If you haven't seen it personally...our patio has fake french doors on it. As in, only one side opens, the other is just a window. The butt came with the patio.
We discovered, at Lowes, that standard storm doors don't fit fake french doors very well. We determined that we needed to build out the mullion strip between the door and the not-door so that it was the same profile as the outer edge of the fake french doors.John checking the measurements. again. and again.

So we ordered the door we wanted and set about the not too urgent process of padding out the mullion strip. By the time our door came in we went out of town and then we got a hurricane. Good timing, right? But after the hurricane we had a not too rainy day and were able to put the thing up. This picture isn't a closeup because this was our first mullion strip modification and it was not perfect. Not bad, but not perfect. Highly functional though.
We installed the door and are pretty happy with it.
The coolest part of this door is that there is a roll screen in the top window that you can pull down when you want some air. John is clearly enjoying the breeze.
After the installation, we enjoyed some celebratory bratwurst; the traditional food of victorious home-improvers.

While we're out here on the patio, I'll give you a tour of John's green thumb summer projects.

That is basil in the brown/green pot and dill in the tan pot. The dill has a jalapeno pirate in it. Their roots are so enmeshed now that they can't be separated.
More jalapenos in the round tan pot, chives in the brown planter, and a gardenia from John's dad in the green planter. The giant green container behind the plants is the garbage pot.

This is the corner plant. Once upon a time we knew what it was, but that knowledge has been lost to antiquity and tours.

There is a dogwood tree also from John's dad in the round tan pot. Dan and Betsy bequeathed to us their thyme in the round brown pot. The square black pot is full of rosemary and the little white pot may be just dirt. And that is the last of John's "patio for orphaned and wayward plants".