oh hi, June

So apparently May came and went, and we somehow managed to survive the Rapture and a tornado (mutually exclusive events), frame the addition, build a staircase, and start tearing down our siding. Who knew that the end-of-times could inspire so much hard work?

Last I left off, we had just finished the subfloor. Now, we've got this:

 and these...

closet.

And it only took a little bit of this...

and a little bit of that...

and from time to time, a splash of this...

Ok, not really. I will spare you all the gory details...except for the one about us thinking that Will had been pre-raptured the day before and that we would have to carry on without him.

Will and Charlie put the floor down on the second story, so now we have a really sweet "deck" to hang out on before we frame upstairs:

Charlie also managed to build this thing all on his own. I don't know for sure what it is, but Will seems to think it's important:

Will and I also decided to go ahead and start taking down the first layer of siding from the east wall of our house on Memorial Day because we are totally NUTS:

Then, just to round out the month of May, the 3 dinguses (Will, Guff, moi) made a run for it and stayed up until after sundown ripping off the nasty lead paint siding. This is the pic from the day after:

Will, aka husband of the year, has had a rough go of it this last month. Aside from the scare of the pre-rapture and starting a major construction project during what was likely one of the rainiest Springs on record for Indiana, he was tragically clobbered on the head last night by a rogue hammer:

Job (as in the Bible): 20. Will: 3.

Although our project was originally just a mudroom, two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, it has grown to include new siding, insulation, and windows for the entire house. My sister calls this "scope creep";  it's more of an avalanche at this point.

I think we'll be more than happy with it in the long run.

Oh, and God rescheduled the rapture for October 21. Back to work...

p.s. thanks for the reminder Jenny, the original home remodeling queen.