My glorious week of vacation is over.

We applied paint vigorously to the upper back side of the house last week. I had to replace all the facia on the south side because water had gotten into the boards and ruined them (T1-11 made in the early 90’s wasn’t exactly good). We did, however, install rain gutters this time… so that should take care of the problem in the future.

a photo taken fairly early in the project – I only fell off this thing once

Now to paint the lower section of the back, inside the deck area, the floor of the deck itself, the sides (replacing fascia on the west side), installing gutters on both the east and west sides, painting the east, west, and north sides, and gutters on the front.

I expect to be done sometime in 2006.

We did have a massive thunderstorm on Tuesday. I had to stop everything and run inside, as we experienced 77 mph (124 kph) winds. Unfortunately, they ripped the shingles lose on the top 4′ (1.2 meters) of the south side of the roof. After things calmed down, I collected my shingles from the street and neighbor’s yards, climbed up there, and put them back on (I’m missing one). I’ll be calling today to find a roofer to re-do the entire roof (there goes the hot tub fund!).