Seems like I always find a way to put things off til the last minute.
Way back in June, Kelby and I crawled under the house and started hanging the new insulation to replace what the bear had torn down. We spent about four hours crawling around on belly and back, bathed in dust and fiberglass. We got about a third of the way finished. Three weeks ago, I talked Kelby, Alex and Zach into helping me finish the job. We spent about four hours crawling around on belly and back, bathed in dust and fiberglass. We finished the second third of the job. Two weeks ago, despite my previous insistence that Caren would never crawl under the house, she and I spent about four hours crawling around on belly and back, bathed in dust and fiberglass. We finished the final third...
Caren didn't relish the thought of bathing in dust and fiberglass, so she took appropriate precautions...
While the boys and I were crawling around under the house, Caren was working madly to finish the chinking before the snow flies. Most everything was done except for the tiny seams on the ends of the Pioneer Log Siding. She was able to finish most of it two weeks ago. What she didn't finish, we finished earlier today... while battling wind and intermittent snow flurries. Talk about putting things off til the last minute.
Despite my procrastination, the house is finally all buttoned up for winter. I had planned to finish everything last summer, but, well, I'm pretty good at putting things off...
Oh, and before I forget... I think I might have mentioned earlier that we chose to use cold rolled steel for our ridge caps. The thought being that it would rust, and, well, it would look rustic. It went on nice and shiny.
But, over the past two weeks, with the change in the weather, it is beginning to rust...
And it looks cool!
