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so on Wednesday we were doing window framing and that had to begin with inventorying the windows I actually purchased.

There was some confusion over the windows. I bought all my stuff from the store that used to be Wiley Bros., where my dad had gone my whole life; literally the week after he died they sold the place to Curtis Lumber, but as part of the sale, most of the old staff stayed on for a while, so I dealt with a guy who knew Dad.

The windows I wanted they either had on backorder or couldn’t get, so FarmBIL and I did some poking at the plans and determined we could substitute the one size for another and that’d be fine, and so we went ahead and placed the order. Most of it arrived, and they said two of the windows and the screen door were on backorder and we’d have to wait if that was OK, and having had some warning I said that was fine.

So the last windows and the screen door were finally delivered months later, last week. cut for lots of numbers and boring logistics discussion lol.

So, the plans called for: 4 four-by-four foot windows, two two-by-four foot windows, one two-by-two foot window, and one three-by-eight foot door. I had added a second door and planned to move one of the windows to a different wall, as one of the short walls of the cabin does not have any doors or windows in the plan as written. (This is because some of the design options include putting barn doors on that wall, and they were too lazy to update the plans once that was not included.)

Yesterday we finally looked through all the various remaining piles and determined that I had somehow received:

2 four by four foot windows, 4 three by four foot windows, 2 two by three foot windows, and 2 doors.

That’s. Those aren’t the same numbers at all.

The odd window is in the loft. supposed to be two by two foot. we determined we could cram in a two by three foot and that’d be okay. The wall below the loft also calls for smaller windows, the two by four foot ones, and we’d agreed to substitute two by threes there too. …. so we’d intended to order three, and somehow. well we got two.

well, a three by four foot would fit in the place for one of those, so that’d be something. ABIL complained that two different sized windows in a single wall was surely a terrible idea, but he was envisioning both windows vertically. If we had the three foot be the vertical dimension of all of them, that’s really no problem. A two by three one side of the door, and a four by three the other? Will look fine. One’s wider, cool. I’ll put a cabinet next to the other one probably.

These are double hung windows, so they’re probably all meant to open up and down. I don’t care. I’ll open a window sideways. If it’s double hung that means i could open it either side. Perfect, then I don’t have to already know how I’m gonna arrange the space before I put them in.

anyway with ABIL for scale that’s how the 2 four-by-four foot windows look on the creek side of the cabin

(oh yes note his fashion statement: he got a home depot tool belt and then salvaged the suspenders off an old set of Army-issue webbing from the late 90s that was kicking around their house, so now he has a proper set of equipment webbing. he also has that clip-on pencil-on-an-extendable-lanyard thing that is, he frequently says, the best two dollars he ever spent. I am insanely jealous of the suspender idea, my bizarre midsection topography means my tool belt migrates wildly around depending how i sit or bend or stand and it’s incredibly annoying. i had been pondering making a tool vest or something. Suspenders is a real good idea.)

Anyway– I don’t have any other good photos of the windows themselves, but here’s the view out of one of those four-foot windows:

the creek is down a six-foot embankment, but makes a lovely little burbling noise most of the time. the drawback of the yurt was that it had no windows so i could not look out at this view despite being outdoors enough in it that i had to sleep under a mosquito net. it would be nice to be able to look out windows. that’s something i’m looking forward to a lot. (Your picture was not posted)