Fall is coming

The walnut trees are changing color.

The same corner, only better

Painting

We were able to get the painting done this week before the rains came. Pictures next week!

Rain...

Wednesday and Thursday we took off from working outside to work, yup, you guessed it, inside! The house cleaning had gotten a little neglected with all of our efforts being put into prepping. Today we are doing more priming and starting to cover the windows with plastic. Soon we will feel like we are walking around in one of those bedding display areas with the windows that have the light shining through the plastic...

Tuesday's Prepping (4a)

Monday's Prepping (3b)

We had to caulk each seam between two boards and around each window. Tyler, Andrew and I spent three hours doing it on Saturday and Tyler and Andrew spent about 4 hours on Monday. The boys got to be quite good at it.

Just some of the debris going to the burn pile!

Monday's Prepping (3a)

On Monday our focus for prepping the house to paint was replacing all of the cracked cedar boards. Scott with the help of the rest of the boys replaced about 400 feet of cracked siding.

Daniel working on priming the fresh boards.

Daniel was pretty excited with how he could walk around on the platform with out being scared. It was a little wiggly!

Saturday's Prepping (2)

Here Daniel is bleaching the gutters on the second story. He wants to make sure that everyone knows how high up he is on the ladder. It was rather a time consuming process as we had to move the ladder very 3 feet or so. I was the ladder mover and ladder stabilizer. So mostly that means I stood on the bottom rung of the ladder to make it more secure. For the whole afternoon. Somebody has to do the hard work around here!

Prepping the house to get painted (1)

Daniel getting ready to bleach the gutters