A couple days ago Scott went to the river to clean up and get some tools. While there, he got some new ideas about additional windows. He looked at the "cheeks" of the dormer and thought he could squeeze a window in each one. When he measured, it turned out he could fit a 2' x 2' window.

Yesterday, he went back to the house and prepped the window openings, and while he was there, he took down some scrubby trees and trimmed a bunch of branches around the power lines.

The resulting brush pile.

On Saturday, Scott took out and replaced the bottom row of the big upstairs windows. He had a narrow ledge to work on, and after he carried the windows to the second floor from the inside, he had move them to the outside through the openings and lift them into place before nailing them. It was nerve-wracking to me, but he said he wasn't nervous at all.

On Sunday, he put the top curved window in. This one he lifted on the outside of the building, but he said it was lighter. It was higher up, so I was praying the whole time he wouldn't fall. But they're in, and he's still with us.

To help him manage the windows from the outside, he build this ledge. So at least he was standing on something level, even if it was only 10 inches wide.

When I wasn't helping to stabilize a window, I was tearing out drywall in the living room and office, burning any wood trash I could, and cleaning up. ​

Yesterday, Scott finished drywalling and wiring my closet. He finished the cabinet in the upstairs bathroom, and he installed a new casement window in the kitchen to the right of the door. Finally, he wired up a new overhead light to illuminate the area in front of the closet and bathroom.

We were debating where we could some more closets. We decided one made sense to the left of the upstairs bathroom. That will be mine. Scott will have a smaller closet in a space that already exists on the wall opposite. He will also make some built-in drawers in the wall to the right of the bathroom. 

Today he framed in the closet and did the wiring.

Three days at the river house, and Scott has wired the bathroom, put up drywall, taped it, and cleared out the area where the water heater and pump used to be. He is going to make it into a closet with a built-in cabinet. He also tried to install the vanity I bought but discovered it was the wrong one, so he took it back to the store. 

He likes taking photos of the river and sunsets. Here's one from each of the last two nights he was there.

Original loft photos