Shingles!

So this weekends torturous job you may ask? Staining this humungous pile of shingles. These will go on the outside of the house. And where did we get these lovely Alaskan Yellow Cedar Shingles? ON CRAIGS LIST! Yep, we have started calling it, the house that craig's list built. This is just a picture of a small part of them.

Curt would brush them off and then bring them into me.

Where he had set up a work station for me. What you can't see is the small portable heater, since it was FREEZING OUT!

He built a few racks to dry them on since it was also POURING with RAIN the whole day. (Sunday was sunny)

 Curt finally had to give me some help since it was taking way longer than expected. But then so is the house!

 Pippin also feels then need to help out....but with out opposable thumbs he just wanders around looking for cookies crumbs. (It is girl scout cookie time you know.)

And here is what they look like drying on the rack.

Seriously, I think this is going to take forever...........

All though you might have noticed in the pictures, the electrical wiring is also going in right now. But this is just about the most boring thing ever to take pictures of.

Next up should be the fire place. The blocks are supposed to arrive this week sometime. (Hopefully)

WINDOWS!!

Finally the windows are going in! We got Lindall wood framed windows. And they look great! I really wish I had some pictures of the guys putting these in. Most of them are HUGE and I know it took a lot of work.

Here are all the windows piled in the living room.

Living room windows are in now.....except one! We measured one wrong! We have to reorder and hopefully we can use that one in the carport/shop. You can see the hole there to the left of the big window.

Here is what they look like all in. There are still a couple more to order, you can see the white plastic over the window holes. but those will come soon.

Moore Roof

Just for fun, here is a pic of Eric and Kati's dog Bean, he helps out Eric building on our house. This was him scoping out the roof before the metal arrived.

I don't have a lot of pictures of the roof going on. I was at work while most of that was being done. Here is one of the guys putting on the trim of the roof.

And here is one of the metal almost done. It's been a wet job as you can see!