One more thing...

(**as always, click on the photos to view them full sized**)
This is the living room with the window boarded up because the previous owner rather purposefully broke it out. Also the bit to the right of that is where an old stove pipe went out and had been rather badly and improperly filled in. Ben plans to put in a solid fuel burning stove and will run new stove pipe through there. The neighbor is a "dry waller" and will fix the wall and ceiling properly and replaster those areas.


This is the new window in the living room. It's surprising how much brighter the room is with glass in the window frame instead of wood! Our roofer, Phil Cordes also put the window in. He will "flash-out" the outside when the weather isn't quite so cold.