A great 3 day weekend has begun! After dropping my cousins off back at their house (they stayed over Friday night) – I came home to Ryan getting the siding started. The next piece of siding will have to be cut around the window cap that we put on, we’ll do that tomorrow. After that …
Painting won out today. We went shopping this morning at a sporting goods store and I bought some shin guards so the bruises on my legs wouldn’t be a problem painting. If only we had thought of that before painting both Friday and Saturday 🙂 So the second coat of green is on! And it …
After a light sanding to remove the bugs I had the side of the house ready to go today. After a short trip to the dump and the paint store (out of primer after a day of priming), I got to painting. While I painted, Ryan worked on the window panels, he started by putting …
My original plan was to take all Fridays off in September to work on painting the house – well it’s the last friday in september and I finally took a day to paint (I did take last friday off but it rained). So today I started by sanding the side of the house that I …
This 3 day weekend (for me) did not go exactly as planned. First off I hadn’t been feeling well all week and not taking it easy definitely took its toll on me. Secondly Ryan unexpectedly had to work all weekend. Thirdly – it rained on Friday – a lot! So let’s see – Friday it …
We had a bit of a late night last night visiting with family so we had to make up for some sleep this morning 🙂 Once we got going however we started right in on the second copper triangle. Moving the metal bender outside made it go MUCH faster (instead of carrying the copper inside …
When I got home Friday night Ryan had been hard at it already. He wanted to get the porch ceiling removed before we did windows today since the boards were in the way. The ceiling really needed to be replaced anyway so he pulled down the section around the cupola and we took the wood …