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Here's the guest house framed up. Well, actually, it's the last shot of the guest house in its 180 condition. The next day we moved the beam so the garage door opens on the tree side, not the ocean side. |
| Suzy and Haley add shelves to saw horses, thinking that they would be enough to hold the stained cedar siding. So funny! Liam spent the rest of the afternoon building us places to hang wood, and we still need more. We only got through about half of it. |  |
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Haley and Liam move the windows, which are perfect. Taine did a great job picking them, as usual. |
| On Wednesday morning, right after Hawk got here, it rained and rained. Haley and I were frustrated, there wasn't any way we could stain. We didn't start until after lunch when the rain lightened up. Taine and Holly worked as if there was no rain. |  |
 | It was sunny in the afternoon, as if it hadn't rained in the morning. I took a little break on Pingree Rock. |
| This seagull, who thinks Pingree Rock is hers -- she has littered it with sea urchin shells -- refused to move when I approached with my camera. I got to about 5 feet before I decided she really really wanted to stay and I should just let her. |  |
 | The work crews. Taine and Holly, Haley and Liam, Hawk and me. I cut plywood with Hawk's new saw, and we hammered it into the spaces left by the plywood. Soon we will wrap the house, then the windows and then the roof. So fast!!! |
 | After work on Thursday, we ate oysters, cheese and smoked salmon by the water as we watched the sunset. It was a little cold, but so beautiful it was worth it. |
| Here's where we are on the house as of Saturday, March 19: All walls sheathed in plywood (except that little bit in front of the upstairs windows you can see there), about half of the hip roof supports, and the entire roof substructure. |  |
 | Some delivery truck must have run over our water main, it broke and it sent a huge stream down to the water. We shut it off, but now Hawk gets to learn how to deal with pvc pipe primer and sealer. We're going to do that while we watch the NCAA games, then we get to go have dinner with our architect. They're having lamb!!! |
| It was so nasty on Sunday -- gray all day. We saw a small pod of whales (we heard them first, blowing their puffs of air, and ran down to Pingree Rock to see them go by, only a few hundred feet offshore). Then the wind came up and there were huge rollers going by the house and the whole strait was whitecaps. Still, it wasn't so cold as Saturday and we spent about 6 hours there, putting up plywood in all the holes. At the end of the day, we saw this rainbow on our way back to watch the sunset -- the sky cleared just then. |  |
 | Here's a shot of the house, wrapped on the bottom! We put most of the windows in on the ground floor, too. We hope we get to start siding today. |
| Holly gets nails out of boards as Taine wraps up cementing the last posts for our stairs in. We cut steps out of 3/4 inch plywood so we can get up there on something besides that scary plank. |  |
 | Taine built a scaffold so Hawk could nail the pine tongue and groove boards into the soffit space. Very beautiful. Very scary scaffold, so high up and so narrow. It bounced. And then Suzy got up there and stained it all driftwood gray. So scary. |
| So we figured out where the bathroom would go and how it would be arranged. It took Taine and me about an hour to do that in 40 degrees, at the end I jumped in the truck and drove to Kings and bought myself a bright red turtleneck fleecy, a black knit cap and a back fleecy jacket, lucky they were on sale! When I got back, Taine gave us the job of digging a trench from the edge of the house to where the toilet will go, through that nasty nasty nasty gravel. It took us two days. |  |
 | Today (Friday, March 25) Hawk drilled holes in the soffit for vents while I sanded our fascia and trim boards so they won't have nasty black spots on the back side. Then we cut and stapled two sheets of tar paper onto the hip roof, and put lines of green string across it. This was thrilling because our shoes really stuck to the hip roof and we were both about over being scared. Haley and Liam should see me going up and down that plank to the second floor now! Except today, Taine finished the stairs up. At the end of the day, Hawk and I ate these beautiful belon oysters out on Pingree rock. Perfect. Wait, not that's not all: We went back to Kit's and watched the Badgers beat NC State and now we are going out to dinner at Friday Harbor House, our favorite island restaurant. |