It is now just about the same time of year as last year that we started working on the inside, without a furnace or our wood burning stove hooked up. We indeed dressed in multiple layers.

As you have been able to see from my last post and also this one there was a lot of insulating and drywalling to be done.  This stairway goes up to a six foot walkway which leads to Lyles and my loft bedroom.

This is looking up into the loft from the kitchen area.  It is pretty high to the top of the ceiling which is probably why Lyle wouldn't let me rent staging to paint it myself.

And here I am up on the walkway taking a picture of my two buddies in the kitchen area.

Okay here we are again up on the walkway looking into the loft bedroom which will have its' own bathroom.  Are you getting tired yet from running up and down?

  Lyle and I this summer insulated the garage and then put up 3/8 inch plywood because 1/2 to 3/4 inch drywall was too heavy for me to lift and hold in position while it was being screwed in place.  When I look around and up at the great room ceiling I shudder thinking of two quys up on staging putting 4 by 8 sheets of drywall in place.  We let the workers finish the insulating and drywalling and only came once or twice a week to check progress.  I used days away from working to "encourage"  the heating company to get the furnace hooked up.
As I said we don't have any duct work except for a little in the basement but even heat in the basement would help warm the area the  work was being done in.
Not only did we want warmer conditions to work in we needed that heat to seal the drywall.  I did lots and lots of encouraging to get heat. LOL
 Actually I couldn't have been to bad since most of the contractors said we were very easy to work with.  Thank You Lord for giving us a huge helping of patience.