......................weekly posts. Just not enough that's photo worthy each week, right now.
Weeks of Dec 6 and 13 :
I’m very very nearly finished with the window work. As I was working on the penultimate one today it occurred to me that I might not really have made clear what’s involved in this that makes it all take so long*.
The window trim that I keep referring to is actually both the window jamb extension and the trim. So, we begin with this:
I build a fully independent unit, like this, back and front shown:
Each part gets oiled and then after adding insulation to the space between the wall and window, and also wooden blocks that will allow me to attach the frame : 
Then it’s time to put the frame in and force it tight to the window. 
Then it gets screwed in with 4 screws that I will putty over later. 
Finally the bottom piece is nailed in, for the only two face nails in the whole thing Now the window is done and the wall can be plastered:
*Well, it also takes time because I love wood and I find pieces that take a lot of effort to work into the project, either because they have defects that would normally make them be tossed aside, or because the wood is snarly and hard to work, or not quite big enough to make working it easy... For instance, this particular window incorporated a sill that has all those problems, but I just loved the grain:
Other progress: Got the base for the shower pan in the master bathroom started and passed the inspection that requires it to hold water for 24 hours without any seeping out at any of the joints. The hardest part of that is where it meets the drain, but mine passed. 
Got Sebastian tiling the first floor bathroom. It took the two of us really as he lays the tiles but I do all the layout and cuts. 
The layout of subway tiles is far more complicated to plan that I would have expected. Well.... they are SUBWAY tiles. I shoulda known!
Here’s an exciting development:
Electrician did a bunch of work and we have many switches and outlets.
In general, the space is starting to feel homey to us. It’s still miserably construction-ish, yet we prefer to be there on the weekends to being in our mobile. So much so that this weekend J did her work on the sawhorse construction paper table that seems to have found its place in the dining room-to-be.
We're having a cold snap right now, but we've got a toasty and dry workplace (if not so much the living space we're still in...) . Quite a contrast to the trials of last year at this time. Although we have been firing the Tulikivi, we haven't done anything with the warming oven -- but it's been getting warm! 
It’s the home stretch of getting the walls done. A little bit more of that – meaning me getting the trim finished up so that Sebastian can get the wall plastered – this coming week and we’ll be all done with walls! 
I have enjoyed the opportunity to woodwork, but I won’t be sorry to be done with window trim! And doors. Here’s the back door into the kitchen. The odd shape of the plaster – can you see those lines of wood? – is because we’re not putting two coats of plaster behind the cabinets. Only a finish coat where the wall will be exposed. 
