Bandboard, Brick, Shingles

The easiest bit to "trim up": everything to
the left has porch covering it--no brick required!

I discovered yesterday that the thing that had deterred me from getting started on dressing the sides with the remaining items is that I really don't like applying the brick.  (emphasis on really)

The bandboard and the highlighting trim that goes just above it both actually go on quickly and pleasingly. It's only the brick that's a total pain to work with. Given that discovery, I think I'll put t applying he bandboard and trim to the other two houses as one of the small tasks that goes fairly quickly while I'm between stuff that has to be done to keep the stuff they pay me for moving along.

House 1 all done but for the brick.... and that's coming along. 

I completed all of the trim on House 1, and was just shy of finishing the brick on that house (so close!!) when the available time turned out to be less than the time remaining to complete the job. That was frustrating. Can you hear me saying not-nice words? I said them.

Interestingly, even though I knew that trimming the other two houses would go well, I couldn't bring myself to work on that when the final trimming of House 1 wasn't quite done. So today, since I really didn't want to work on brick, I finished shingling House 3. This means I can assemble another roof soon as a quick task--and one is fun, fast and turns out so well. Ahhh!