October. First hard frost a week ago. This week promises to be sunny and warm...which means we are working away trying to button up the house before true cold sets in. This entails putting siding on the house...finally!

Michael and I decided to put metal siding on the house as it is inexpensive and lasts well. The windows had to go in before we could put siding on, which left us not enough time to hang siding last year. Before the actual metal goes up, the trim goes on. We are also hanging more house block material because the bottom half has suffered from exposure to the sun.

We decided on galvanized because we knew we would scratch any painted surface due to the inevitable learning curve. Yes, we have put painted metal on our out buildings, but there aren’t as many windows and doors on the out buildings. Good call on our part. We had one really narrow space between a window and door that had us grumbling out loud.

It takes us about 3-4 days to get a side done...and there are 3 sides. We haven’t done the corners yet because it’s been too cool to have the sealing tape stick. We hope to get corners on tomorrow. In the meantime, we put in our front door.

After the addition was framed in, we decided to change the location of our front door. Luckily, we could do that!

Then we wrestled in the door. Hopefully we now know how to deal with that narrow space between window and door.

I will need to paint the door while warm weather holds as well. Steps are next year’s project. Snow is not far off when the trees turn to flame.

One of the best parts of this month is the long red light.

And we aren’t the only ones getting ready for winter:

She’s always on the move!