Taking shape...

I was out yesterday for pretty much the whole day: an appointment for Thomas in the morning, grocery shopping and then an appointment for Allison in the afternoon.  When we got home at 4:00, this is what we saw...

This will be our dining room.  The picture above is the side of the room, and below is the back. 

From the outside...

In the picture below the larger window (or hole rather) on the left is in the mudroom and the smaller one in the middle is in the laundry room.  The small window on the second floor (the boys' bathroom) has to come out since the roof will peak there, so we're using it for the laundry room.  The window that is now above the kitchen sink will be used for the mudroom.

The roof trusses will not be delivered until Friday.  Jerry has a crew lined up for Monday to get them on and to put in the beam that will replace the back wall.  I think I may want to be away that day, instead of watching to see if the second floor will relocate to ground level. :-/  Later this week we need to start tearing out the kitchen and taking down drywall.    So, today I started packing up the kitchen and laundry room.  I packed and packed and was very thankful that I wasn't moving and packing up the entire house.  Gerald painted the garage this evening, and tomorrow we plan to give it a final cleaning and set up camp in there. Three cheers to fresh paint, a vacuum cleaner and a can of Raid!