Windows; site cleanup

Here are a couple of photos showing the windows going up. ..

The living room windows being installed. Also note the mound of building debris in the foreground. More on that later...

And all the windows and skylights are in! The doors will be coming in next week, so the place will be buttoned up well enough to start the dry-out.

Our next big decision: the siding. We're thinking about a 3-layer look, with lap siding down below, a band of board & batten and staggered shingles up in the peaks. It would be good to decide soon, so we can get the siding up and painted. The wet season is upon us so finding a few dry days for painting will be a challenge.

Oh, and the building debris issue -- we told our builder that we would take care of the debris. Well, it's turned into quite a pile. We're storing as much as we can in the barn and in some bins we made out of some pallets (they were used to ship the concrete blocks used for the window wells). But we're still going to have 'way more wood than we can use. We will check with friends and acquaintances to see if they want some wood. We also have some places we can take it where it will be shredded and turned into compost, but that means loading a lot of wood into the truck, maybe a number of trips, too. More work to do....