All this work has had a profound effect on us all. For example, the tight quarters has created some strange bedfellows:

Normally, these two don't get anywhere near each other (at least not without a lot of hullbaloo).

After I caught this picture, Mathilda (the cat) chose to be photogenic.

I have responded to crazy work schedules and work on the house in my own particular way:

No, that's not really a serious bag under my eye. It's makeup because Hallowe'en was approaching and I needed to play a little bit.

Speaking of the end of October, what's up with this?

That's right! Snow!

Meantime, we finally got all the exterior doors (hooray) and knobs. The balcony is coming along too:

Siding is going up which presents some challenges.

The trick is getting the old and new to stitch together gracefully. This is challenging in places like this where the old house bluges out and a big old rock just sticks out of the foundation. They did nice work on it, all things considered.