Not quite !!TA DAAAAA!!! but even the most cynical among us has to concede it IS progress. Progress doesn't have to be slow, but it almost always has to reflect a job well done.

So far, so perfect.

We turned a corner over the July 4th holiday, and found ourselves here by the 7th:



Once the top row is done - admittedly a little more finicky than the bottom row - and we get a bit of the next side done, we can have our electric service installed. That will be a great help. Kevan can then take a kettle and a box of tea bags up there, and I won't see him until the house is done or the tea runs out.

Technicals: Kevan's two biggest problems have been warped boards (most of them) and the fact that the space around the windows that should accept the thickness of the siding does NOT. Every board that fits around all those windows had to be shaped specially for its position. This was not making for a Happy Homemaker. The only window that complied was that window to the right of the door in the picture immediately above. ONE out of 16.


Today's a holiday, as it is 90F and humid. There's some good in everything.