The Windows are Done!!!!!!

Time to celebrate!  We finished finishing the windows!  Yahoo!  It has been two weeks this past Friday since we started this part of the project and we are sooo happy to be done!  We even broke out some champagne and brie! (Some of you know what a big deal that is!)  We even used our wedding champagne flutes! It was two weeks of nonstop 10 - 12 hour days (oh, we did take two days last weekend to do other project related things - apart from each other - it was a very necessary break). We are ready to take a day tomorrow to just clean up and catchup!  The back porch will finally be a back porch again as we return the tile saw to Bob (THANK YOU, BOB ) and stack the extra wood elsewhere!  Yahoo!!!!  Now to find some furniture for out there!  (And lights, I want some of those string lights!!!)   We also washed some windows (Annie, the inside of the windows will be ready for you in two weeks!) and the patio roof.  Maybe the best news it that the other morning we pared down our to-do list from 6 pages to 5!  We're getting closer!

The old "to-do" list with some of the tasks crossed off in red.....

has been replaced with a new 5 page list!  Yahoo!  I think the font is even bigger!!!!! 

One of the doors to the upstairs deck before we finished them!  Nice
insect control with the Puffs Plus,  don't you think!  Now they
actually have door hardware that works!

And what it looks like now!  (Sorry for the night shot!) No more insects coming
in through the holes! 

We used the upstairs deck as the workspace to finish one of the
guest room doors!  Nice place to have to work!  Hope our guests
enjoy it as much.

Each window had several little nail holes that need to be
filled before the windows could be finished!  No wonder my back
hurts!  We got pretty good at it - well, we should have figuring there
were more than 1200 holes that needed to be filled! 

Man, those holes were tiny!  But thanks to a tool we found in
Alfred's tool box, it went fairly well!

This red ladder became a staple in the living room!  Lovely decor,
don't you  think!  It's gone as of this afternoon!  Yay!

We decided this benchmark deserved a celebration!  Bill went and got us
a bottle of champagne and some brie!  It tasted great!

We even used our wedding champagne flutes - I think for
maybe the third time!  Not a good record, huh?

So, tomorrow is cleanup day! This is what the living room has looked like for
the last few days.  We covered everything with plastic drop clothes to protect it
from all the sanding dust.  It will be great to get back to some sense of "normal."

LOOK!  Clean windows - well at least on the outside.  Being that we didn't
want to have to borrow "the plank" we used to climb up on the porch again,
I decided to wash the upper living room windows today while Bill finished
the last of the inside window finishes.  Well, once I got started it was hard to
 stop so....  Didn't get even half done, but Bill claims the brightness is blinding!
Our friend Andi turned us on to a product called "Squeegee Off," it works great!

Well, once I got started on the windows it seemed like a good time to clean
the patio "roof" (for lack of a better term) also.  It is plastic material that was
covered with needles and yuck before I started, now it lets all kind of light in!
Nice change!  That wood is all the cedar paneling we pulled off the interior
walls, just waiting for Bill to turn it into a kayak for 10!

And here is the contraption we set up to clean the upper windows and the patio roof.
Ladder, plank, ladder!  It actually worked pretty well.  I even got pretty good at going up
and down it without Bill's help!  He was kind enough to do all the inside work that needed
the 12' ladder . And there is so much more light under the roof now! Time to find some
outdoor furniture!