House Update

We've been working on long overdue house repairs for some time now. Below shows the change of color to something we tried to match to the colors seen on the Baha'i Holy Places in Israel (blue-gray and white). We had to seal every one of the lapped siding strips, both at the ends and at the point where they overlap. Big job!
Here's the finished coat. Missing is some paint on the upper part of the chimney, plus I'm building some wide wooden window frames which will be painted white. That'll make a big difference.
We decided to take down years of Tricky-Tracky vines off the front because they were looking very scraggly and were not producing the wonderful orange flowers that they usually have. We just cut the vines back and will now direct each vine back across the beams on the front. We suspect that there were too many branches and not enough large trunks, so we'll see in a year or so how this plan works out.
Notice that the wooden bay-window off the living room has been sealed and painted white. It was very deteriorated after more than 20 years in place, so now it looks like new again.
You'll see the window border trim sometime next week, I hope. (Gotta be soon because we'll be heading Stateside for a big journey to visit all our family and friends on April 9th. More on that later.)
The next phase of the work will be to finish the upstairs bathroom and to install the family-room ceiling.