Siding

So... we started on the siding this weekend. Friday night, I had visions of us slapping up the entire west wall the next day, but we didn't even come close. After a run to Lowe's Saturday morning, it took all day for us to cut, paint, and put up the trim on two windows. Sunday morning, we started the siding in earnest. Again, I was hoping to help get the ball rolling, then take a break and head to church or something. But as we didn't have a roofing nailer, we were hand-nailing every piece; and those fiber cement boards are really heavy, so it took the two of us a concentrated effort to put up each piece. By noon, we'd only gotten three rows done. I figured it would probably take us the rest of the year to get the siding up at the rate we were going, so I was (easily) able to convince Chris to stop in at Harbor Freight on Monday and pick up a cheap nail gun. Things should go more quickly now.