Work continues on our house-in-progress. Day 19 and Day 20 are on the schedule as just being catch-up days for the items we caught during the frame walk-through while the siding continues to be installed. [Note: this entry was written on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It was not on the schedule as a work day, although I'd originally assumed that it *was* a work day, since people were there working. Hence, although I had originally thought this was Day 19, I was in error.]

As you can see in this washed out snapshot, they've started attaching the wooden planks at the bottom of the house and are layering them up the walls. The planks are a kind of off-white. I'm assuming that simply means that they came pre-primed.

You can't tell it from the photo here, but it was raining here as the crew finished up for the day. So I thought it was kinda funny when they took out a hose in the midst of all this rain and sprayed the siding they've installed so far. Like, how much more wet could it get? (I know, I know, the rain wasn't cleaning it off the way a good hosing down did, but it was still funny.)

For the next couple of days, the wood plank siding will continue to creep up the outside of the house, while not much will be happening inside (except for taking care of those aforementioned small issues). Work inside the house resumes in earnest in a couple of days, when they begin putting up the drywall.

At this point, we are over one-third of the way through the construction schedule. Wow, is time flying. Yee-ha.