Done with exterior trim!

(Some exclusions apply.)

Eliot and I replaced our plywood front door with a cheap interior door from home depot, in an attempt to reduce the number of new mouse-shaped occupants.

We got the range wiring installed.

Next, we went after wiring the furnace. The good news was that we needed only a single run of 6awg wire -- we only needed a modest electric backup heater. The bad news was that the HVAC folks installed the furnace so that the electric supply input was 1.5" from a triple stud that we're not allowed to drill. We gave up at dinnertime.

Saturday

Eliot and Christina installed window trim legs on the laundry room window.

Siobhan and Eliot installed more legs on the kitchen windows. A little caulking got astray.

Siobhan shot a few bullseyes.

This is Isaac and Jennifer, the couple that designed the building last year. Eliot thought this looked like a stock photo architect meeting, so I made Isaac wear a hardhat.

Christina and Jon made the last few windowsills, and she painted them with Siggy. Here she's helping Eliot install the sill under the stairwell windows.

Christina and Jon also got the door center trim piece finished up and installed, which completes the trim on the front wall. Pretty gorgeous!

Siobhan and Jon touched up some sill ends that were missing primer. By the end of Saturday, we had all the window trim installed except for one window that still needs a piece of siding below. (It's waiting because the temporary electrical ground pops out of the wall right there.)

Sunday

Big winds Friday knocked a tree down on the dirt road we share with the neighbors. We used it as an excuse to cycle fresh fuel into our generators, so we chopped it up with electric chainsaws. We were just getting down to it when our neighbor showed up with his tractor to push the tree out of the way.

Eliot and Jon got back down into the crawlspace to finish the battle we began with the furnace; we emerged victorious.

A couple weeks ago we were cooling the shedlet with a fan. Next weekend, the overnight low is 25F/-4C. So we blew out the water line and hiked all the water-based paints and glues up to the shedlet where a heater keeps things above freezing.