Making Halloween

We had several make-parties at our place the first couple weekends of October.
We really didn't have a hard set theme except that 'skeletons invade the pumpkin patch'.

We have boxes and boxes and boxes of skeletons, both human and animal and many, many
bags of random bones.

The folks that came over to help got this direction, ' See those bones there? Make something cool out of them!'

Our last pumpkin

We picked them all, 8 in all, for the kids to decorate.

Even got someone to untangle the 'pumpkin vines'.

Artists hard at work.

It ended up being a loooong day, ahem....

Art Harder!

Annnd the young'uns lasted about an hour before it was tea time.

This piece ended up being one of the coolest. Like a pre-historic dragon skeleton or something.

Trying to figure out the front yard....I have to be the man with the plan...

Bony chandelier making.

That's a couple weekends of fun/work.
We got to eat pizza at the end of every work day so, you know, it was
totally worth it.....

Next Up:
All Done Halloween Decoration Pictures!

Super Duper Victorian Exterior Restoration part 2

Okay now, a ton of time has passed since the last post about the exterior restoration.
We are now done with the Jasco'ing, and mostly done with the sanding.
The dark spots you see are where we sealed nail holes with the epoxy.

Now, Tons O Pics Of the Most gorgeous Wood That's ever going to be covered by paint.

 Dentil, how do I love thee.

Here is the porch ceiling in the middle of being sanded.

 The porch ceiling looks so amazing that we are going to clear coat it.
It sees no weather and no direct sunlight so it should look good and last.

At some point in the houses life the redwood trim was removed on the lower
windows and they put up knotty pine.
We replaced all the crap wood with clear western red cedar. Which we
think is as close as you can get to old growth redwood now-a-days.

Love these shingles.

Here is some dry rot we are repairing on the corner of the stage between the two windows.

Original flashing, still in good shape.

Wow, I really love how this looks.

So, there you have it, way to many pictures of my house.

Youch, my arms are tired...