What a great weekend, we made a lot of progress on the siding this weekend.  It started friday night, we got to work on the window panels on the cupola, the goal was to get the left side window done so we had something to butt the siding up to on the front.

We did a bit more than we ‘had’ to, pretty much sticking to window panels and prep work friday night and saturday.  Sunday we then proceeded to install the siding on the front, and a block for the mailbox we plan to build.  We got about halfway up and we’re very excited by the progress!

Window panels on the left of the cupola

A few boards we continued, including the start of the window cap around the cupola

On the back side we cleaned up the existing board and primed it, we didn't finish all the way around yet though.

Finishing up the removal of the old siding so we could put up tar paper in prep for siding.

Started the cap on the front door

Ryan made a new base piece by planing down a piece of 5/4 and then putting an angle on it, then I primed it.

We couldn't resist putting one of the window panel pieces in, just looks better that way.

A close up of the siding on the right, with the new backplate we put in for a mailbox

The siding - halway done on the front!

That was our weekend, not bad for sleeping in late each day.  Hopefully the weather is good next weekend and we can continue the siding on saturday!