Well it's been a week since my last post and while a lot of things have happened since then, there are only a few picture-worthy items of note. The rest is just stuff that had to get done. Since last week the carpenter has completely finished siding the front of the house.
And I love the detail he added at the top of the front door. Not sure if I mentioned it in the past, but the front door will not stay that color. I'm staining it (as well as the other 3 doors we're replacing) a dark cherry color, but that probably won't happen until closer to the fall when the weather is cooler and definitely a lot drier.
Over the weekend, we spent all of Sunday cleaning up the yard in preparation for the dumpster to be hauled away. It took hours to get all the debris from the backyard into the dumpster with me on the wheelbarrow and J on the tractor. And thank goodness for that tractor! We used the backhoe bucket to compress all the wood that was already in the dumpster. Without doing that, there was no way we could have added all the other debris. My reward for doing all of this clean-up - one nasty sunburn on my back!! And that's after using sunscreen. Go figure...
On top of that work on Sunday, I was also busy scraping paint off the 2 awning windows on the side of the garage. They're in good condition so I figured let's clean them up, paint them dark red to match the other windows and we'll be good to go. Plus now's the best time do it while there's no siding on that wall yet. No need to be ultra careful - who cares if I get paint on the Tyveck! Yeah...well that's until J decided to push on the glass to open them up (they were a bit stuck after not having been opened in years) and the bottom glazing on one of them completely broke off. Great... So now I have to repair that before I can paint it. Then I looked at the other window and noticed that the glazing was cracking and breaking away on that one too. Ok - back into the house to Google "re-glazing windows" to find out how to fix them. Thankfully it was a rather easy job. Just needed some window glazing and a putty knife. And I already had the putty knife! LOL So Monday night I painted a coat of primer on them. Tuesday night, coat #2 of primer. Wednesday at like 6am (yes I am an early bird, but it was also so nice and cool out this morning I couldn't resist) I re-glazed both windows so now I just have to wait for that to set and in a few days, I can paint 2 coats and they'll be done. Pffeww! One more task that will be done off the list that is slowly growing to be several pages long. :-o
Also on Monday - the stone masons set up their scaffolding to start prepping the walls for the stone.
Just a few of the many (9 or 10 I think) pallets of our lovely CT weathered fieldstone.
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I love it, it looks so beautiful! I want a pretty house too!
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