Our winter was not a winter and I couldn’t be happier!  Still, we had to take a break from working on the cabin as the rains and soccer interrupted our schedule for most of January.  This weekend was free and absolutely beautiful so we got back to work!  Both of the kids came up on Saturday and explored the woods a good bunch with the girl down the road.  Emily and I discovered just how out of shape our ladder climbing legs had become.  We also discovered just how pasty white our skin had become.  I ended up getting another ridiculous basball cap ring from the sun this weekend…geez.

Anyhow, we got the soffit and fascia up on the back end of the house a few weeks ago.  This weekend we got it up on both sides of the cabin so now there are no places for critters to get inside.  Spring is apparently here and the birds will soon be looking for nesting spots and the open eaves would have been prime real estate.  Crisis averted!  The drag is, installing soffit goes up 12 inches at a time so getting both sides installed took a million trips up and down the ladder.  I just cannot manage more than one piece at a time while trying to hold on to the ladder and the hammer.  Maybe I will end up with a yoga booty when this is all done!

Finishing the ends/corners of the soffit and fascia can be done several different ways.  I guess everyone has a preference without knowing it…the only thing is, when you see what you don’t like, it stands out like crazy…I think.  Maybe I am crazy.  Anyhow, we did it the right way so I am pretty pleased with the end result.

Soccer is about to start up again (we play fall, winter and spring leagues…gee whiz…too much soccer) so I am not sure what the coming weeks look like for progress but we will add the ledger boards for the deck (the board that hooks to the house) and then get siding up.  Siding should go up fast since we can cover large areas in short time with the long pieces.  We have already started to see the effects of UV on the weather guard.  The orange plastic caps on the nails we used to hang the house wrap are faded to nearly white on the two sides that get the most sun (the picture right above is a good example…compare the white nail caps with the orange caps in the picture right below).  Siding is UV resistant and is critical before summer gets here.

I can tell by the look on your face that you are not nearly as excited as I am to see the soffit and fascia in place, but just you wait until I get my yoga booty going!  Maybe I can work on a soffit and fascia work-out tape!  Call me the next Richard Simmons!

See all of the progress on the cabin