Another construction/coding/vacation has almost come to an end: tomorrow afternoon I will drive back to Houston.
Again a lot was done: 1st floor tiling, deck railing, staining western gable end, siding the south wall, framing the bedroom walls,
inside stairs and 2nd floor railing, chinking of 2 inner walls, 4 power outlets, 2 (Siri controlled) smart lamps, second sink bathroom installed,
beam and posts deck stained. although I had planned to do the wood burning stove and pipe and chimney, that didn’t work out due to long delivery times,
but it wasn’t really fireplace temperatures anyway: at night it only goes down to 68F (21C), and during the day gets about to 88 (31C) so not a lot of need for a fireplace.
The pictures below show how the outside looks like now:
Good looking. Most people in Texas have fireplaces and stoves for looks/show. When they want to use them, they just crank-up (really its down) the air conditioner to get it cold enough to justify using them.