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Sixteen pictures with this group with a few visible changes.

All the logs have been treated now so now all we need is the 2nd story finished. The wood has been treated but as you can see not put up yet.

The chimney for the wood stove. It has to be extended another 3 feet so it will be above the peak of the roof.

The swing finally got put up. If you look at some of the previous postings you will see the swing sitting on the porch for a long time but it's up now and we will put it to good use. You can't have a front porch without a swing, God intended it that way.

It didn't take Carol long to test it out and it meets the feet touching the floor and back to the backrest test.

This is from the front door and behind the wall is the front guest room. This is an inside wall but will still look like the real log walls and it will go all the way to the ceiling. We could have put up sheetrock for the 2nd floor wall, you can see the wall studs above the stairs, but it would look weird to have the 1st floor look like the logs and above it finished in sheetrock. Also those aren't the permanent stairs which will be oak pegged together with walnut pegs.

The ceiling fan for the living room is up but the globe for the light will be put up later so it don't get broken while they are finishing things up.

That black thing on the ceiling is where the pipe for the wood stove will go thru to the outside.

The wall in the open loft area, the space behind it will I'm sure be used for "Stuff" and there will be an access door there. it will also make it easier to clean the floor.

The other end.

This is the ceiling in the masterbath, it can't be finished until the vent fan and pipe have been put in and it should be done by now.

The ceiling from taken from the top of the stairs, the ceiling in the whole house is basically done except for the trim. The steep pitch in the background is the 12 12 pitch of the roof and the shallower pitch of the ceiling in the foreground is the shed dormer which includes the media room, walkin closet and the master bath.

The basement with the furnace and the water heater and both of them are electric. The wood stove in the living room should take care of most of the heating if I keep enough wood cut up for it.

Here I'm terrorizing the Poison Ivy. There happens to be a lot around there but I think I have gotten rid of most of it. There is more in the woods behind the house tho that I will have to get rid of and this stuff seems to do pretty good.

The front has the wood guard on the logs now. It is more noticable if you compare the ends of the logs at the front right with the logs on the side of the house, it hasn't been treated yet. There are 17 pictures in this group.

Compare this view with one taken from the same spot during winter.

The ceiling looking up from the living room. It is tongue & groove white pine which is lighter than the white oak and red oak logs that are at the bottom edge of the picture.

Part of the ceiling and the front door looking down from the loft.

The front ceiling from the loft looking to the right.

The front ceiling from the loft looking toward the bedroom.

Here is a picture of the lamps we chose for reading lamps by the bed in the master bedroom. They will have globes on them like the ones that go on kerosene lamps. There will be no lamp kit on the ceiling fan in here so we picked larger wall lamps simular to these to go on the walls by the entrance door and the door to the outside balcony.

A closer view of one of the lamps.

The ceiling fan and light installed in the front guest bedroom. The back guest bedroom will have one just like it.

Another view. You can see that the blades are moving if you enlarge this picture and look close.

The new kitchen lights are in.

The new kitchen sink before the faucet was installed.

Carol's new stainless steel kitchen sink and faucet but the sprayer hose hadn't been installed yet when this picture was taken.

Carol's new ironing board closet in the utility room.

With the ironing board down.

Cutting some of the brush and weeds in front of the house down by the road with my new brush mower and I would pick a day that was 94 degrees to do it, I found out how good the water is coming out of our well. I got rid of a lot of salt that day.

Eighteen pictures posted this time, the first 3 show some exterior change and the rest show the interior painting that we did. It's still going slow but sure. We won't be moved in May like we hoped, probably sometime in late July but we will get there eventually. If anyone in Omaha or anywhere else looks at any of these postings please leave a comment or 2 so we'll know if you did see them, thanks.

The exterior is almost finished. All that's left is the log siding on the 2nd floor and the 1st floor logs need to be sealed with Wood Guard and that will happen when we have more than 2 days without rain.

The garage exterior is finished now and the interior is almost done.

This is the master bedroom and the color is "smoldering coals" (where do they get these stupid names) I ain't telling you what the bathroom color name is. If we picked by name instead of color we would have white, yellow, blue, red and tan in every room. The first 3 pictures show the 1st coat of this color (1st coat looks great don't it?) and the next 4 show the 2nd coat which looks different with different lighting, flash & natural light from the window.

The master bath is a red but a different shade than the bedroom.

The master bedroom walk-in closet is the same color as the master bath.

A dark red for the media room.

The small wall on the left, the hall wall and the back guest room are light yellow. I just noticed that I didn't take any pictures of the utility room, I will the next time I go there but it is the same blue as the kitchen walls which is in some earlier pictures with the cabinets.

The back guest room is a light yellow.

This is the front guest room and it is a little darker shade yellow than the back guest room. We thought a little darker yellow in this room would be ok since this room has 2 windows instead of 1 like in the back guest room.