some photos as an interlude

There are many thoughts filling my head (and Matt's, too) and some of them are blog-worthy, but in the meantime, here are some photos of progress on the siding.

Owen and Matt work until dark many evenings. There's a lot that Owen isn't strong enough to do, but also many things that simply need a second set of hands and a sturdy eight-year-old's hands are satisfactory.

Sometimes Owen helps by keeping tabs on Reuben so I can help Matt. (And sometimes Owen doesn't want to have anything to do with playing with Reu, which makes this photo that much more special to me!)

We're waiting for help on the big roof, but Matt took a day and got the roof on the link finished up! This will let him get higher on the siding on the wall of the addition
that the link roof butts into.

 The above were all older photos - here are some I took just tonight, so are as up to date as the work is.

The little wall Bobby and Krista were working on now has a piece of siding above the window. This is the first window to be completely surrounded by siding!

around the corner by the office entry, there is one piece of panel on the stair bump (not yet covered with battens), the soffit edge of the roof overhang is on, and there is siding in between the basement and main level windows.

Around the back, the living room window is all trimmed out, and a bit of siding is starting underneath it. Also, the little end pieces of the board and batten panel are on the bump that will someday have a fireplace inside of it.

And around the other side of the back you can see quite a bit of siding working its way up - these windows aren't quite surrounded yet, but they're close. Also notice the other side of the fireplace bump has panel on it.

And this last photo shows the back side of the link with completed shingles, AND the trim piece that makes the transition from where we had to cut siding away from the existing house to make room for the flashing to the link.

Tomorrow Matt is working in the office all day (probably the sixth time this summer!) and then Wednesday The Lift shows up. He's hoping to be able to work with it by himself to finish getting the pink rigid insulation on, and then has a few people who are planning to work for a day or part of a day to help him get trim and siding up to the higher parts of the house that aren't as safely accomplished by ladder. (This is especially the case at the front where the window well prevents you from getting ladders in a good position relative to the house to get up to the peak.) And when he doesn't have help and I'm not occupied with my mom-work, I'll be out there as his second set of hands!