There's been lots going on around here, but for the moment we only have photos of a small portion of it.  At the moment, we are deep into the re-siding of the entire house, which is an exercise in patience, compromise, and holding your temper (at least for me).  We do have a new roof, which was much-needed, but somewhat less necessary were the dozens of nail punches that came through our ceilings throughout the upstairs.  Ugh.  The contractor will make this right, though; it's just irritating to hear the excuse, "It's an old house".  Yes.  We know that.  We told you that.  We asked you to be careful. 

At any rate!  We do have some other nice, positive progress to report on!

Here's the hall bathroom, which previously was honest-to-God scary, as you can see from this previous post.  Here's another little amalgamation of the before pics, once we were down to the lathe:

We also found a pretty entertaining shim behind some of the lathe work--an antique cigar box:

And today, it looks like this:

Looks pretty different, yeah?

We have also been slowly accruing little bits and pieces of artwork and ephemera for our "nook", a tiny space of about 6' by 8' at the top of our main staircase.  Here's the current state of the nook...

Brian is especially proud of his handiwork on this antique-inspired candlestand he made entirely by himself out of beautiful mahogany.  I think he did a fantastic job, and it's really gorgeous. 

In another bout of crafy-ness, he also made the shadowboxes for these antique keys, which give a neat dimensional look to the nook.  I helped with the fabric backgrounds. 

And last but not least, partially because I have a penchant for including animal photos in my posts for no apparent reason, here's a gratuitous wild bunny shot.   This little baby bunny (a bit bigger now in just the week or two since the photo) is quite unafraid of us and routinely comes right up to the house to nibble the blackberries, raspberries and of course roses.  He's so cute, though, that I forgive him entirely.  The dogs, not so much.