We are so Not Square

Showing off my drilling skills

Hard at work on the "Uncle Elmer" Window

The arrival of all of our new windows certainly buoyed our spirits, as they were the first of the new materials that would actually be seen once the house was done. The windows that we were replacing were funky – mostly rotted, wood-framed, single-pane windows with broken glass. Once again, it seemed like someone different showed up every day to help put in the windows. One challenge was that not only was every window and its framing uniquely individual, but nothing was actually square. My Uncle Elmer assured us that this was normal in older houses and that the trick was to sort of make the window level-ish without making it too out of whack with the line of the ceiling. I guess I'd forgotten my high school Geometry skills and just assumed that walls and ceilings were always perfectly perpendicular. The windows ended up looking just great!