Routing Redux

So - remember my painful brush with manual labor last fall?   C'mon -- the cold, the sawdust, the whining?   Ah -- now you remember:   Bob scraped the bottom of the barrel and came up with ME to help rout logs last November.   Yes, if you'll recall the pictures of those long, long, oh-so-long logs, you'll understand a bit of my disgruntledness when I came upon this scene on Friday:

Really?!  I couldn't get this short little sucker? 

Random House Pictures

I got some good pictures of the house on Saturday, before this blasted rain started. 

The south side of the house:

Looking down into the house from the east gable  (into the living and dining room):

Autumn finery:

Boards

Milling + logs =

Ain't they purdy?

Progress and Perspective part III

In my never-ending struggle to be positive and not make more of those pinched little wrinkles around my mouth, I offer this installment of 'Progress and Perspective.'

This photo was taken September 25, 2009.  Compare it with the one at the top of the page, taken almost exactly one year ago.   That's progress, baby!

East Gable

The house is getting less drafty by the day!  Bob, his father and Johnny worked on the east gable end of the house yesterday, filling it in all around where the cool big windows will go. 

See?  Lookit:

It's the short little logs you're supposed to be looking at.  Hey -- don't use that tone with me!   What do you mean they all look the same?   

Soffit

I have gone blithely through my life, a successful woman, content and confident in my word-nerdiness without knowing the word 'soffit.'  Until now.  Do YOU know what a soffit is? No. Don't answer that. Because if you are like 'DUH, Log Girl! Everyone knows what a SOFFIT is!' I'll feel dumb. (How's that for channeling 1986?) Like, whatever.

A soffit, for your information, is the ... well... covering sort of ... thing.. boards.  Erg.  I now bring you a word from our builder: "it's the boarding or paneling that covers up the underside of the roof that sticks out past the wall. If you didn't have soffiting, bats, bees and squirrels could fly or climb up your wall and get into your house through the underside of the roof."

Er- yeah. That. Thanks, honey.

This is what it looks like:

For you eagle-eyed kids, yes that is a gable end being filled in.  Thank you for asking.