It snowed this week. Only about 3" inches, but I took a trip up to the house just to check on it.
The plywood and tarp are holding up just fine on the roof, she's nice and dry inside still.

I took a pair of photos of the house in the snow:

 

It's going to be a long winter waiting to get back to work on this house!

  While I was out in the yard making mulch, Rob was busy replacing the front door to the house.
I don't have a good photo of the original front door, but it was a french door that had been painted blue and had four of its panes broken out.  It was cracked vertically spanning its entire length on the side opposite the hinges, and had a piece of OSB board screwed and nailed to it to keep it in one piece and keep intruders out.

    I scored a free door from my friend Dennis. It came off of a 1905 house in Newburgh, NY .
It is solid wood, with a nice thick window and it weighs a ton.  Rob had to shorten it a bit and plane it to fit my jamb, but when he was done, it fit and functioned beautifully! I can close it with one finger.

Here's what it looks like installed:

   

     Cold weather is making for little to no progress on the house as there is no boiler therefore no heat. Last weekend however I managed to rent a wood chipper and clean up the badly overgrown front yard.  I got rid of all the saplings, thorn bushes, brush, and dead and fallen trees.

     This photo of the front of the house from August shows some of the thorn bushes on the left:

After I cut everything down and chipped it up, there is actually a nice front yard:

Now I can see the house from the road, and I can see the Delaware River from the front porch!

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