Gazebo, Alcove and Balcony

Today is a windy, rainy day . . . perfect for working on the manor!  Yesterday we did a lot of work around the farm and I was able to get my front flower beds in order.  I'm paying for it today, I ache all over!

Brian is busy shingling the gazebo roof.  I stained them on Friday using Dark Walnut, but for some reason it's not the same color as the rest of the roof of the manor.  I must have used a different stain.  I noticed this too when I stained the gazebo door.  Hmmm . . . anyway, I'm leaving it.  At least the door and shingles match!

The balcony alcove has worked out beautifully and I'm very happy with it . . . mostly.  My measurements were off a bit so the posts aren't quite spaced evenly.  For now I'm going to live with it.  I may decide later to fix it, but I'm hoping I'll just forget about it!

With the alcove finished, I was able to move on to putting together the banister for the rest of the balcony.

Also with the alcove finished, I was able to finish the siding on the tower.  I still have a lot of painting to do, but I forgot to clean out my brushes and well, they're trashed!  Note to self, clean brushes before moving on to something else!  I was going to go to town for brushes, but Brian is worried about CoVid and it's raining heavily, so I ordered brushes from Amazon (what did we do before the big "A"?) and they'll be here tomorrow.

I finally figured out how to electrify the conservatory and gazebo!  It's such a simple solution I don't know why I didn't think of it before!  I'm going to install outlets on the main manor and then I can just wire the chandeliers with plugs and plug them in.  This solves the problem of what to do when I have to move the manor.  I ordered outlets which should be here in a week or so.

So for now, I'm going to make some popcorn and snuggle in with a movie.