Wanted to do x, didn't finish, yada etc.
Got one laborer today (in addition to Lance). Rene wasn't there so they sent out Jesse. At first I thought Jesse was about 18 or 19 but it turns out he was pushing 30. And, as Hank Hill says - that boy ain't right.
Jesse was pretty proud of the fact that he had met Ben Stein. The story was that Jesse was living in his Mustang with his girlfriend and one day his girlfriend was washing his home, er car, and Ben Stein drove up and tried to pick up Jesse's girlfriend. Apparently Jesse's girlfriend was wearing a green dress and green shoes. This seemed to be an important part of the story but I'm not sure how.
Anyways, Jesse was a pretty good worker. And, Jesse and I have the same birthday. Apparently he knew I was a Libra because of my fish tank.
We finally got the last piece of old siding off. Finished sheathing the north side, and got a significant part of the front sheathed.
We ran into a couple of interesting things.
This is the beam that runs across the front above the porch. Hard to see, but it has some old termite damage. I decided to not replace it. Most of it is in pretty good shape. It's a double 2x 8 and one of the 2xs is not damaged at all.
Here is some very interesting framing. It includes a header cut in two with another header sandwiched in between, a piece of angle iron (above the header) that doesn't go all the way across, and various creative partial studs and braces.
Here's pics of our progress.