Another full day of work...

Today we had another full day of work, finishing up the first of three walls on the second floor bumpout. (outside the master bedroom) You can see it here as the wall with the window missing, to the right of the porch roof.

After finishing up this section, Grace got to painting some more new cedar clapboard, while I stripped the remainder of the old stuff that we've salvaged but not reinstalled yet. I think the new stuff that we bought today (10 pieces of 10' long 6x1/2" clear red cedar) should be good enough to finish up the two remaining sides of the bumpout, and the second floor front of the house. Once this is done, we're considering the outside of the house done... for now. What you can't see is the second floor of the office, that still needs to be done, but we can't see it, so it's not a priority... and the third floor sections. We're starting to figure out exactly what we'll do with that... all of the existing siding, which is diamonds and scalloped shingles, is old and cracked and will be replaced... with something. Exactly what, we don't know yet. I'll leave that up to Grace.

We'll be celebrating this Labor Day weekend by living up to its name... laboring away! :)