Siding Siding Siding

Yes,  all we have been doing is siding. It seems like the never ending job.  We did take a break and do structured wiring one day,  but then we were back to siding.

We have passed all of our mechanical inspections and our framing inspection.  All on the first try....we must have a really good general contractor!  We are in process to schedule the insulation, drywall and flooring.  Hopefully we will be ready for the cabinet delivery that is coming on Thanksgiving!

The house weathered hurricane Sandy just fine.  We had a little water in the basement but we believe that it will be corrected once final grading is complete.  We only had a few trees across the driveway to clean up after the storm,  unfortunately one of the had poison ivy on it and Julie is a little sensitive to PI. 

Side of house.  You can see the front porch on the left side of photo.

A couple of weeks ago,  I tried to move a rock pile.  Apparently,  when your lawn mower is trying to haul a really heavy trailer in wet grass, it is easy to get stuck.  It turns out it is also easy to slide backwards down hill.  If you are lucky a big pile of tree stumps will stop you before you roll over the hill.  If you are more lucky no one will ask you what happened,  they will just help you haul the rocks back up the hill.

As the weather gets colder it is hard to not get anxious about getting in the house.  We are all missing our stuff.  I am sure any clothing we stored will no longer fit the boys.  I was thinking, if we can work out the timeing, so that our stuff arrives from storage around the holidays,  maybe we can wrap it up for Christmas gifts and the kids won't recognize it.