Let there be light! (And a clean tub.)

This week was the first nice weather we've had this spring. This meant that it was finally time to tackle the windows.

First, all of the siding for the second floor on this side of the house had to be taken down. It had to be done carefully, as we needed to reuse it once the new windows were put in.

Under one set of siding, we found old cedar siding that also needed to be cut through in order to make the window opening.

It was a pretty yellow color. Maybe someday we'll turn the house back to that shade.

Then we went from this...
To this...
To this!

Voila! A new window where one had not been before.


It then took most of the next few days to get the siding back onto the house, as the openings we needed were now in a different location than before.

And, as I could not help with the siding and windows, and I did not want to waste the nice weather, I got to clean the tub.

I had to get as much of the old layers of paint off of the tub as possible. To do this, I had to use an angle grinder with a nifty wire wheel on it to scrape the paint off.

I spent about 4 hours scraping paint off of the tub. And I didn't get it all off! Interesting things that I found were:
1. You cannot hold an angle grinder easily, it must be held at an awkward angle to do its work.
2. A tub does not want to give up its paint nicely. It flings it all over the yard.
3. Our tub was made Jan. 3, 1926 by the Kohler company. It had its birthday stamped on the bottom.