End of May Update

Here are a few more pictures of our progress on the house. The siding on the addition is nearly complete. It cannot be finished until the doors, windows and cornice are installed, which should be soon.

We continue to sand and prime a room at a time. Most of the upstairs foyer is finished. We still need to work on parts of the stairwell, but since they are so high and unreachable without a big ladder, we've been putting that off. Pictures of the foyer:

Now that the main structure of the addition is complete, work will start soon on the deck. In order to do this, the builder graded the yard. All of the yard. The yard is filled with lots and lots of rocks. We are going to have a rock harvest this weekend. Kinda like digging potatoes.

Before Wife knew it, the grading of the yard resulted in the plowing under of the wildflowers. Fortunately (for many reasons related to both landscaping and marital bliss), there are a few wildflowers growing along the left side of the house. Hopefully we will be able to transplant these to another area of the yard next spring. Wife is trying to block the 2007 Wildflower Massacre out of her mind and shall endeavor not to speak of it again.