I though we were done with the framing!

Yeah, so your work is never done when your house is quickly approaching 90 and it's been neglected for half of that.

First, the building inspector wanted to see that the header joist in the dining room--which has stood for nearly a century strong--got a little reinforcement. A few joist hangers did the job.

Then, while removing decrepit siding from the kitchen exterior, we found what must certainly (hopefully) be the last of the rot infesting the foundation sill plate. Having carefully watched the previous work done on other areas on the house, we gave it a go ourselves. The sawzall was loaded for bear with the 16" blades the previous contractors had left for dead we went to it. In a Saturday afternoon the job was done. Grinding away with a ravaging saw and yanking out the wood upon which the house stands is a far cry from the experince of our first project on this house: scared to death of the rancor the sawzall made as we delicately ripped though the old shower. We have grown quite a bit in the last couple of years. The fear is gone. I could take out this whole wall right now--really . . I could.