May 29, 2014 Finished garage end gables.

Earlier this week, Jerry and I installed the last upstairs window and trimmed out the rear of the garage. We installed the siding I had that was leftover from the house end gables. When we went to Butte to get the rest of the siding I found that they did not carry it in Butte anymore so I had to order it from Billings, MT. It came in yesterday and we finished installing it today.

May 28, 2014 Built stairs in garage

   A friend from Tennessee, Jerry Finley is spending the week with me. Yesterday we finished building the stairs in the garage, We started doing research on the internet early in the week to learn how to build them. Neither of us had ever done stairs before. I still have to install hand rails. I'm thinking they should be made out of lodgepole pine poles and spindles. We made a few mistakes, but I am now ready to tackle the stairs in the house.