Work on the back has begun

Back of the house that is. Although, I think my own back could use a little work too. Of the chiropractor sort. Something has been feeling out of alignment for the past few days and I think it might be due to all the time I spent bent over while I was staining shakes over the weekend. Need to come up with a pain-free method of staining, especially since it takes about 3 1/2 hours to finish an entire box. But I think I'll take the cheap way out - who needs a chiropractor when there's a pre-opening party coming up at our friend's new bar this Saturday! A few cocktails and a little dancing should set everything back in alignment! Or at least make me forget about it for a while!

Ok - enough about my aches and pains...on to the latest house news. Our carpenter has been making huge strides in the back of the house especially since there were quite a few rainy days last week that set everyone back a bit. I'm sure this will be done in another few days.


And here's an interesting picture that I took. It's the condenser for our central air, but focus your attention on the nice cedar box that our carpenter built around the exterior control panel for it. We have mentioned to him on more than a few occasions that we are just obsessed with copper. And we are - it is/will be all over the house in some form or another... so he fashioned a copper roof for the top of the box. If that's not attention to detail - I don't know what is!! This guy is phenomenal!


The masons have moved on to the front of the garage now, so I'll be posting a few more pictures of that progress later on.