Poor, neglected blog

I'd like to say the house hasn't been as neglected, but, well.

It's not as if there hasn't been *some* house-related activity, either. It was the most insanely hot summer ever, and the A/C went out. Somewhere I have a picture of the capacitor that needed replaced... we did it ourselves.

Last week the furnace did, too. I don't have a picture of the motherboard that needed replaced... did that ourselves, too. So it's not that we are complete incompetents when it comes to house repair.

We've about conceded defeat on the siding, though. I think we're going to take it all off and replace it with fiber-cement.

There, I said it.

It's not as if the house is a museum (remember, the entire interior has been gutted, sheetrocked, popcorn-ceilinged, and so forth), and we'd re-side it at the original narrow reveal and all that. And the city's Historic Preservation department will get first dibs on the cedar we take off. So that's not evil, is it?