Now that we had the new section ready for roofing, the next stage of the project was to remove the old tin off the front section of the house and to install new tin on all the roofs.  There was the occasional militant wasp or bee that didn't want to give up their cozy home in between the roof slates.   But eventually they were all evicted and we had all the tin removed and stacked in the barn to be used for future outbuilding projects. 

We had been looking forward to and imagining what the house was going to look like with the new forest green tin for a long time.   Each piece that went on was so dramatic and exciting.   The day finally came when it was all on and what was once just a dream became a reality. 

The house was finally completely dried in.  I no longer cringed when it started raining but instead found myself becoming tranquilized by the sounds of raindrops on the tin roof.    The original windows in the house were in really rough shape.    We salvaged the good ones to be used somehow later and decided to have new wood windows made for all the exterior windows.   One by one we lifted them into place, sometimes using ropes and chains to hold them in place while we secured them into the frames. 

When the summer was coming to an end we were ready to start refacing the siding.  Our original plans where to remove the existing poplar siding, using it as a subfloor later on the interior and replace it with the same type poplar and paint it white again.   We had several poplar logs milled to match the rough cut and dimensions of the old siding and started putting up the natural poplar planks.   It took us a day to get the first piece started but once we had a system going we didn't slow down.   Actually we sped up because we had the extra (much appreciated)  hands of David's mother, Lynnie and Carl, an uncle from Colorado, who was passing through.    David's brother Mike also helped for a day and got to be a part of the ceremonial last pieces of siding. 

When we were done we were so attached to the natural look of the poplar that we have decided to leave it and just add a protectant.    If we later want to restore it back to the original white ...we always can.....just can't go the other way too easily. 

As the first snows were falling we were reading books on brick masonry, building porches and all the untraveled roads that where coming ahead.