I’m planning on building my own door at some point, but I wanted to just get one in so I could finish the siding. I bought a scrap door, but spent so much friggin’ time cutting it down to size, adding wood to support the edges, and installing the hinges, I think this door might stay for a while. And the color almost matches the windows, so I’ll probably wait until I’m living in it to take my time on building a better one.

I’ve gone as far as I can on the siding. I can’t finish the siding on the front until I get the steel roof on the ‘shed’, but that should happen soon (I hope!).

…window trim.

Back ‘home’, I slid that puppy right into the driveway (it actually took a little more time than that. I’m new to towing trailers, but it went much more easily than I would have thought, even doing it by myself. I finagled it right past the awning, and did an Austin Powers back-and-forth to nudge it right up to the garage.) I spent a couple days on my high voltage wiring, and installed a 300 amp outlet on the outside of the ‘big’ house to power the ‘tiny’ house. I was debating on whether I’d put in a skylight, and after feeling the heat build up in the bedroom, I decided to frame for a skylight just in case, and then had a nice dinner at Ju.

…I also finally got my bathtub/shower/washing machine. I thought I was going to have to order one online, when I happened to drive by the farm supply store that I didn’t know was there, and saw the perfect size trough, I mean shower, sitting out almost buried in a giant snow bank. After I and one of the guys who works there spent an hour digging it out and unfreezing it from the pavement, we realized it had been full of water when it froze. So, we had to sleigh ride it on a snow shovel to the door, then put it on a flatbed cart, then heave it up into the bed of my truck. Triumph!

I was so anxious to get it into the house that I put the jet-fuel heater to work at a new task. It took almost an hour and a half, but I finally got the 80 pound ice block out, and got the beast into the house.

Fire…

And ice.

Just a shower…