Now you did it...

We started working on the front kitchen wall, didn't want to, mind you we had to.  We've known there was rot there for far to long.  You see the water comes off the kitchen roof onto the living room side roof and splashes, and pours right down the siding to the ground.  Being the siding there is a hundred year old pine some of it has seen better days.

Off with the siding, er. clap boards, off with the tar paper, no plywood here, 8" to 20" wide pine 1 inch thick rough cut boards applied at a best we can tell 50 degree angle, oh good, more fancy boards to cut.  The 50 degree angle did no one any good, as the water that got through the rotted clapboard(s) above now ran diagonal across 10 feet of wall taking out all the two by four studs along the way, sometimes you just gotta laugh...  

We are sorer than we've been in a while, bent, grunting, oh that hurt, slow down I'm hobbling here... We're almost done though,  we wouldn't be this close to finished without the help of a friend of Jarrod's,  he worked tirelessly for three solid days, as did we, except without the tireless part. That's our helper in the pic below.

The house looks better (I'll post the after pics tomorrow if I'm up to it...), we'll soon be ready for paint, a sage green with tan trim we've been talking about for years as soon as we've healed up a bit.

 What did we get into here, a whole mess of rot, worse than it looks thankfully.

Yes sir we had us some fun!  The house is now ready for another hundred years, me I'm not so sure about.  Don't get old, just sayin'

I'm tired, and I'm going to bed!  Night all!