Florida work

I'm currently in Apalachicola, Florida working on the old homes around here. I've built an arbor, shed roof to shelter a fish cleaning station, painted a house and now am replacing rotten siding on a house built in 1843 that was moved here from Port St. Joe.

Whoever I'm working behind at the moment must have either had no idea silicone is not paintable, or had a whole bunch to use up. It's everywhere. I've been picking silicone out of cracks all morning. There is an abundance of bad carpentry all over the house, and I'll be trying to correct as much as I can and stay within the home owner's budget.

I've been slack in posting, as my wife and I have our first child on the way; it's a girl and her name will be Naomi. We're really excited, but I'm burning the candle at both ends and haven't found much time to post on here. She's due around the end of May, or the first of June. =-)

More later!