There's mud, and then there's MUD...

Wow! The siding and brick are almost done on the front of the house! There is still a lot of brick to go up on the back and side of the house, but the hardie plank looks like it's about done.

And, notice that my sewing studio window has been corrected. It only took 3 tries to get the window correct. :-D

The window was originally supposed to be a rectangular window where the octagonal window is now, but the roofline over the mudroom was in the way, so the framers put the rectangular window further to the right and higher up. In that position, it was too close to the adjacent protruding wall and there was no room for the window trim around it on the outside. Now, they have replaced the rectangular window with the octagonal window and put it in the location that the window was originally intended to go.

On the inside of the sewing studio, you can see the second location of the rectangular window(where the drywall is missing on the left). The octagonal window is too high up to see out of, but it does let in light. I'd rather have it look right on the outside of the house than to be able to see out of it from the inside. Whoever buys this house from us is going to think it rather odd, though.

The brick accent has been put in over the front door. They built a template to use to help keep the arc of the brick even and to hold the bricks in place while the mortar dries.
Here is the underside of the covered area by the patio.

And these are the boards that will be used as the ceiling of the outdoor covered areas (by the patio and by the front door).
The El Dorado Meseta Fieldledge stone has arrived. It will be used on the chimney, on the bottom of the posts near the front door and near the patio covered area, and on the fireplace inside the house. They don't have as much color as I thought they would...
The mudding of the drywall inside the house will probably take most of next week (we like this kind of mud!). And, speaking of mud, we were happy to see that most of the MUD around the outside of the house has dried up (we don't care for this kind of mud). I'm sure it won't stay that way for long, but it was nice not having to put boots on to walk around the house.

Tomorrow is a big work day at our current house. DH will be replacing the woodpecker-damaged corner boards while I continue packing up stuff in our closets, and we need to get the POD loaded with boxes.