Porch Blogging: Limbo Edition

I managed to speak to a human at the DC Regulatory Authority yesterday about the status of my resubmitted building permit application. The zoning portion of the permit has been approved -- the part that required me to implore friends with engineering backgrounds to furnish me with signed plans. All that remains is a soil and erosion examination.

Blah blah blah. When can I get the permit?

On the other hand, a sign of our proximate liberation from limbus patrum porchum is that our contractor and his carpenter are coming Monday. That porch might just get built before the first frost yet.