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Yesterday they showed up at noon, worked for half an hour, took lunch break, worked until 3 and left. The guy that told me they had to be done by Tuesday said he was going to watch his neice run cross country in a state competition.

Hopefully they will put in a full days work today. We had planned to start painting the garage (all the work we have done up till now was priming and repairing cracks/holes). Hubby left for work at 5 so I guess I will be on my own.

Gee - it must be nice to have a job where you can set your own hours!

Well, Tuesday came and went and they are still here. We had been gone for a couple of days and I was hoping it would be done when we got back. Looks like they still have quite a ways to go. Hubby called the siding company and complained and they really didn't have much to say. We have to talk to the head guy about some of the work that he did that doesn't look so good. I will be glad when this is all over.

Finally some photos...the work is almost done and I have another roll I just sent off

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Its a beautiful house Connie and its sure great to see that the siding is almost finished.

Drum roll....it is done! We had them sign our wall in the basement and took a couple of photos of them for my scrapbook. I have tons of photos of when we bought the house and the changes we have made and one of these days I will make a scrapbook to go with the house.

Yippee!
What a relief to have it finished.

Yes, I am so glad it is over and done, all except for the payments lol. We have to paint the base of the house and are going to do that white and also the porch on the front of the house is blue, but the old color and I think we decided to wait until next year to fuss with that. I guess it will all depend on how much more nice weather we will have.

Connnnnnnnie! Your house is GORGEOUS! I'm sure you must be thrilled that the siding is all on. The window trim looks great, too. And, I love love love those porch columns! I really like all the different roof pitches - you must have lots of neat little nooks and crannies inside the house.

You know I had to peek at your WHOLE album, too. Were those your grandbabies? And, what was that gorgeous door/cabinet/mirrored object behind the dining table?????

Donna

Hey Donna, thanks for all the complements! It looks so nice, way better than I thought it would. I don't know what I thought it would look like but it has been so stressful and so many big life changes happened during that 6 weeks period and I am glad it is all over with now. When I was painting the garage several people stopped to comment on how nice it looked so the neighborhood concensus is that it looks great. My neighbor across the street is selling their house this summer when school is over and they are moving to California. I told them they ought to kick in some to help pay for the siding because us fixing up our house has got to make the property values around us go up LOL! They think I am funny. I sure will miss them. They have been great neighbors and their son and our son have been friends since we moved in.

I need to finish off my roll of film so ya'll can see the finished product. I had taken the last roll up and then the only 2 photos I have taken are of the finished house. I am working on painting the base of the house and I have made it around the house 1&1/2 times now. There has been no wind and it has been perfect for painting but I have been trying to clean house. My sister and I are going to a bead market Saturday and she is coming home with me to spend the night and so hubby thinks I am freaking out! I told him it has been about 3 years since she came here and I want things to look perfect! Her visit did get me motivated to hang all those pictures in my stairwell hall and hubby says "did you hang enough pictures". Men!

That door in the background is the one I had stripped and hung a while back. Everyone comments on it and we hung a oil painting hubby's mom painted on the wall behind the door. It is one of my favorite paintings (my mom paints also so we have a lot of artwork). I thought that painting was perfect there. That is hubby, his mom in the picture and our oldest son and our grandaughter Mary Jayne. It is always nice to get those generation photos. The rest of the photos in that album are her. My other 2 grandchildren live in different states and I don't see them often.