Thursday, January 17, 2008

Jan 15-17 Windows arrive with some snow

The windows arrived right on schedule Tuesday. Monday we saw some snow flurries so were worrying about the truck getting up the hill, speculating how we could hook the tractor to the trailer to get those windows up the driveway; but it was all to no avail since the morning brought no snow. It was cold but the six of us worked up a sweat carrying the 34 units into the house.

A couple of the units were genuinely big. The driver had these neat straps that lowered the center of gravity and helped spread the load to more carriers.

Here the same unit is out of the box and going into the wall...

And then doing its duty to keep the weather out of the "dining room." Most of the windows downstairs are the old-fasioned double-hung style.

On Weds they got some of the upstairs windows in. The upstairs windows (except the sunroom) are casement style windows.

The outside looks dark because they have aluminum exterior sheathing in charcoal that also has some blue protective cellophane on it.

On the inside they have natural wood - doug fir. This view is living room looking out to porch.

Here is the view from the music room to the snow that fell Wednesday night:

The casement windows have a screen that opens into the room so you can open the window which swings out.

You can't really see the upstairs windows, but this one does show that we got a bit more backfilling done so now there is not a hole behind the porch.

A pastoral scene looking down the valley from the house:

Our neighbor Junior Lewis's house is the one in center with a chimney - all the other foreground structures are barns.