House Siding, Rosco

Here's a wide angle shot of the front. All the siding is up; the bare wood on the left side will be covered by rock. More on that later...
Another photo showing more details in the front. We have several elements going on here: lap siding with a 5" reveal, with board & batten in the middle and shingles under the eaves. Each transition is highlighted by a belly band. Kinda busy but it should look very nice once it's painted. The colors you see here are just the primed surfaces. I found an interesting program, available off the Miller Paint web site, which claims to be a tool that allows you to re-color a photo of your house, so you can preview the paint design before putting paint on wood (or Hardy Plank in this case).

We have a little story about Miller Paint, too. It turns out that the videographer who went with our choir to Cuba belongs to the Miller family. He does (or did) work for OPB, so about 1 year after the Cuba trip we were out at a tree farm while Caprial and John were filming a segment about Oregon Truffles, and there he was, helping out with the filming of that. It's a small world. Anyway, back to the siding....


A shot showing the shed roof.


A shot of the east side of the house (the garage side).

The rear of the house.

Not a house shot, unless you count the newspaper as a kind of kitty dwelling. This is Rosco having some play time with a newspaper. He likes to lurk underneath it and ambush our Siamese as she goes by. Of course, she knows he is there but just cannot resist the opportunity to harass the big guy. Unfortunately, Rosco has a heart problem which will probably do him in, despite the meds we're giving him. Typically, once the symptoms become obvious they only have a few years left. He's the only cat we have who remembers our old Siamese (Dancer) so it will be doubly sad when he goes. They don't last forever, though, so we will just enjoy what time he has left.