Paul on a bike, except when I'm working on the new house...

Yes, a different kind of Santa's workshop outside the Senior Center here....

Mostly what I got done was electrical, so if you can see that I didn't do it right...true there are some wires(not turned on) sticking out, but the good stuff is hidden in the attic. Not thrilled by the light I installed, so looks like I'll be buying a Sputnik in the future, but I'll wait a bit.

This weekend was fixing the structure on the kitchen wall, there were all these bug eaten boards that were somewhat of supports for some 2x6s that I think was a 'fix' for some roofing problems of long ago, and when the roofers did the roof they didn't take out the 'fixes' that had been put in place. So got that cleaned up, and even insulated the kitchen wall. And yes, Paul is tired now. Time for pics....  Here's the money side after I installed the moldings around the windows.  Here's Saturday morning, see those bug eaten boards, had to go.  This is around lunch time, funky wood gone.  And wah-lah, see that 2x4 going straight up, yup, it's plumb an level, can't have people walk into a space and see a crooked wall. And this is after sunday, wall insulated, and I'm dead tired and need more sleep. Big weekend coming up with the library closed for a four day weekend, I hope I survive...

Almost got as far as I wanted, but I still got close to half way though. I put the little bits onto the old roofing nails poking through so that when I push up the panels there will be a air gap so the roof can breath. This is as far as I've gotten, I did clean up today, and repaired/painted the old card table I snagged out of the dumpster, pics later.  It needed a bolt to keep the leg in place, remove the old vinyl and I painted the top, also used some grease on the rusty parts.

I have the Power..... Okay, I have power to light switches that the house probably hasn't had in 15 to 20 years according to the dust funk in the empty conduit boxes.  Chandelier for the tv area...  Pendant and bulb for the dining-ish area, which will be where the power rack goes....got to workout when I'm watching tv.  Found that bit of conduit in the house somewhere, and saved it to use here....this is also behind the front door, and I'll put some knobs in there to hang coats, cause I'm all crafty like that.  The left switch is for the bedroom to the left and the other is for the porch. This is a temp location for the living/dining room lights, after I insulate and re-install the wood, I'll put the box where it will be finally. And here's everybody with the power on after two trips to walmart since the first bulb was broken.... Now I have to remember when I can't see where I'm going I can turn on a light.

I insulated the outside wall, and installed the rafter supports, then today did the wall extension 2x4s so the wall will go straight up and there won't be a weird shelf up there. Also installed a 2x4 that goes from the floor to the peak of the roof, there's a beam right under there so it's a solid support, just seemed that it needed it since I took out so much of that wall. I'm thinking gutters this weekend, need to install the SIX inch gutters on the right side of the house, so next rainstorm the water will be directed away...