Sunday, June 12, 2011

One completed (but not caulked) wall, and some trim shots

The corner by the AC unit and trash can

"Shakes" providing a visual accent over the
 bedroom window

The corner by the herb garden


Just before finishing.

Trim boards with aluminum flashing over top

More trim boards


Thursday, June 9, 2011

In the grim dorkness of the far future there are only cats- and the government controls them!

http://governmentcontrolledcats.dreamwidth.org/

May I recommend you visit this wonderful flash-fiction project hosted by a dear friend of mine. (Caution: Language)

A random sequence generator creates premises so horrible you would only see them on the back cover's in your local bookstore's YA section. Given this so-bad-they-are-good prompts various writers are posting 1-500 word snippets one might expect to see if they flipped to a random page in a Young Adult dystopian future novel with the listed premise. Great fun.

Also my spell checker though that instead of dystopian maybe I meant Fallopian.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Who's siding are you on?

On the left pleae enjoy viewing some tar paper


Enjoy it MORE

Country Lane Red, for your consideration

Work from the bottom up!

Can we go outside and fight the siding?

Monday, June 6, 2011

Before/during

My house is stripping off its clothes and standing around in its underwear for all to see. Would you like to see?
You are about to!

View from inside. Honestly I think this is how all windows should be- covered to prevent awful sunlight rom infiltrating your home.

Before! Horrible wood lap siding, with a terrible grayish color ruining the awesome red



Sort of a mid way point, the house wrap is stapled off tot he old siding because they are not ready to do that side yet.



During! The clay colored area is some bizzare poorly applied moisture barrier. We're not sure if it's older or newer than the tar-paper which the house wrap is concealing. The gray areas have tar paper underneath which is staying since it's another barrier and not hurting anything. The red areas have that clay colored junk paper underneath. Not sure if that's staying or not.



More house wrap over the tar-paper which is over the wood planking.


More during and a great shot is this ridiculously over sized breather pipe fort he sewer. That thing has to stay...