Friday, September 12, 2008

SEPT. 11 UPDATE: Nearly done! With siding, anyway

Hey, where'd the granary go? There's a house in its place!

The siding crew did good work yesterday and nearly finished on our house. Pretty nice, I think!


They put in long days this week, arriving at 7 in the morning and going home about 6. They were still hard at work about 5:30 yesterday.

This is all they have left to do when they arrive today -- that one little gable.


Here's the cows' view, from the north.


They still have a couple days of work to go on the old farmhouse. It will be another noisy day today with the crew clattering on the roof.

That old chimney will come down the rest of the way, too. There's a lot of damaged wood behind it -- not sure how much of that is going to get fixed. At least we found the mystery leak! The rain soaking my parents' bedroom floor was coming in the wall behind that chimney.

... Dave's next project: Getting skirting to surround the base of the addition. That needs to be in place before it freezes, so the pipes don't freeze. Isn't it sad that we already have to worry about that? Sigh. Where did summer go?

... We need to go tub shopping this weekend. Anybody have any advice on what makes a good tub?

2 comments:

littlehennygirl said...

Long and deep... big enough to throw a bunch of kids in or to stretch out on a very cold winter evening after a hard day's work!

Catnap40 said...

can't be too big!