Merry Christmas

While the rest of you have been enjoying your Christmas; Bill has been working. But, that's okay we celebrate with the kids on Christmas Eve. The day is beautiful so he can get a little more siding work done. I stayed inside most of the day putting the house back together after having the whole family over yesterday.

 There will be a three foot wainscoting of rock along the front of the buildings and then the garage wall will be solid rock. The rows of siding need to be level all across the front and around the corners. So Bill has to map everything out. Best drawing pad is the side of the house. The kitchen window is the starting point; we need to measure up the height of the kitchen counter then add in how tall of a back splash we will have under it and then transfer that to the outside, measure up from the ground, figuring in the starter board and that tells him where to put the trim pieces around the doors that will frame around the rock. Usually the architect has figured that out on your plans for the tradesmen to go off of. No architects here; just us.

 Inside corners, outside corners. It's just a big puzzle.

 The trim pieces go  up first and then the siding.