Fahrenheit 101

I had a pretty  productive holiday weekend.  We had such nice weather on Thursday and Friday of last week.  I spent Friday and Saturday cleaning out the garage.  Took a whole load of junk to the dump.  I have stuff in the garage that I have salvaged from different jobs, and I saved it thinking I'd put it to use one day, but never have.  I finally had to let it a bunch of it go.  The good thing is that I can walk through the garage, again.  The hard part will be to keep it from getting that way again. 

This morning I finally fixed the back wall of the house.  I've been putting that off for other projects.  I got some siding from Dad a few months back (about the same time I got the gravel), and it was almost enough to cover the back of the new laundry room.  I had to pull off some more of the old sheathing because it was rotted out at the bottom.  I ran new wiring for the back light and installed the new light.  Hung new sheathing, applied the builder's felt, sealed up the window, installed the Harditrim, and started installing the siding.  I need to get one more piece to finish, but it's mostly done.  I will still need to caulk it and then prime and paint it.  Then I can re-install the gutter downspout.  Here's a few shots:

I will finally have this mess finished this week.  At least the back of the house no longer looks like a shack, and I have finally gotten rid of that pile of siding that has been sitting in the back yard. 

It has been pretty darned hot, today.  I started the day with the work area in the shade, then in the sun, and then finally back in the shade.  It was at least 101 degrees, according to the radio.  The rest of the week is supposed to be in the 100s, as well, but there is supposed to be a cold front moving in by the weekend.  I guess that means the temps will only be in the 90s.