Rearranging...

With errands to do followed by rain, we "played" with moving furniture around.  P1 - the bed in a new spot.  Somehow I think John's idea of a closet (3 chairs in a row) might have to be reconsidered once the siding is on.  For now it will have to do.  P2 - We're still moving things around in the new room.  If you thought one of the legs on the "coffee table" looked a big wonky, it is.  It turns out NOT to be one of my better purchases.

We'll be otherwise occupied for a couple of days so don't look for another post until late on Wednesday.  Have a good few days!

Now what's John up to?

I thought one room was relatively safe from construction but it was not to be.  Because we took out the cast iron radiator and replaced it with a thin line wall version (soooooo much easier to clean!) the plumbing to it also has to be replaced.  With fall on the way, that little project has finally come to the fore.   Because the wall with the radiator sits on a 2 foot stone foundation, the tubing to the radiator has to come up in the room about a foot from the wall.  The only way to do that "discretely" is to bring it up under the platform the wood stove sits on, a challenge in itself.  Luckily John likes these types of construction dilemmas.

P2 - Tired of looking through the plastic coating on the windows, we peeled it off today.  A room with a view!  Finally!

P3 - Our siding has been back ordered but there are still things to be done. Today we started putting the flashing along the bottom of the walls.

Multiple choice...

P1 - Suspect you don't see much of a change from yesterday but it does have the second coat of blue paint.

P2 - What is John up to now?
a)  Looking for the jumper cables he knows he put somewhere.
b)  Playing hide and seek with the cats.
c)  Doing yoga stretches in the privacy of his own closet.
d)  Trying to find the easiest route for the tubing to connect the radiator.
e)  All of the above.
f)  None of the above.

And then there was blue...

Nail holes filled - check.
The "odd" crack caulked - check.
Everything hand sanded - check.
Everything dusted - check.
Blue paint on all primed surfaces - check.
Second coat of blue on blue surfaces - check.

Need I say more?

Meanwhile Gus, with those saucer eyes captured on camera, practices for Halloween.

White...

And then there was primer...
(And a little BBQ & wine because it was Labor Day after all.)

A room with a view...

P1 - At last!  Photos of something different. (Weren't you all getting a little tired of looking at the same old, same old?)  P1 is of the upstairs bedrooms betterly (Google tells me that's not a word.  What do they know?) known as the Adirondack room.  The view from that room had to get a bit smaller because of the new room downstairs.  Up until today, that room has had to make do with a construction tarp (not too inviting for guests).  Oh, yes.  That's Bruce on the inside.
P2 - John on the outside.
P3 - Bertha inspecting during coffee break.
P4 - Bruce securing the new window from the inside.
P5 - John doing the same from the outside.
P6 - Recognize that?  Just thought I'd toss in a photo to show folks other than us have projects.  Bruce has been replacing the mantels over the windows in their beautiful old barn & is doing a great job.  And, in case you're thinking that's a bluebird house, it's not.  That's a kestrel house where a pair of kestrels raised their family this year.

Awaiting paint...

Finally (I thought this day would never come) the trim in the new room is all in place (every last pesky little piece I hope!).  We were almost ready to send out the word that we needed a wood stretcher for the baseboard when John located a scrap that was just long enough (we only needed a foot).

On the hole in the yard front, John brought in 16 buckets of dirt from our spare dirt pile (doesn't everyone have one of those?) and raked it over after I took this photo.

And, yes, it was another beautiful day in upstate NY.  As a friend likes to say, "We are soooooooo lucky!"