Finis

Not really, of course. But now that the set is done, the work of our contractors will quickly wrap up. Utilities need to be connected, septic and backfilling and grading hopefully done next week (electric still a bit away), and a couple of trades need to get in (the items we won't be doing ourselves - rough plumbing, HVAC).

Which means that our work begins in earnest. Yesterday we started staining again. (Because we were getting so much junk from the trees falling down on our newly stained wood, we had decided to wait until we had the house set to stain the rest of the cedar so we could let it dry indoors and under cover). We built some drying racks and hope to finish by the end of the week.