Honey do list

Just wanted to drop a note and update you all on the progress @ our house project. We got the outside finished in the nick of time, it's getting too cold out to do some of the things we just finished(such as painting). All of the windows that I'm replacing are in (the porch windows are going to stay until I rebuild the porches). The old siding has been off for a while now, for those of you who don't know, the house came with two layers of siding the top one of which we removed exposing cedar lap siding underneath which we cleaned up and painted. I knew there were two layers of siding on the house prior to purchase, but I didn't know what condition it was in. Original plan was to remove both layers and install Hardi Plank siding at a cost of about 2500, for grins I redid the math for the cost of the 6" clear cedar siding that we now have, it came to 10500! Wow! Anyway, now we're going crazy on the inside trying to get it done as quickly as possible so we can insulate. We have the fireplace going burning up the scrap wood from demolition to get some free heat until I can hook up the furnace to all the rooms. Can't wait for that day. Catch you all later, will update when I can. Ivan