What Have We Done!?! (What we have done)

At the time of our last update in September we had just trudged, head down, through several months of flooding, contractor and funding related delays, window vendor foul ups (and delays), and a lot of labor for little apparent change in The Room. Also Walt had run away, chasing a deer through the woods, eventually to be found later that night with the assistance of a strange forest hermit (let's put a pin in that part though). As a reminder, below is the house floorplan. The black Xs are elements of the house that we're taking down/opening up. The room with the blue door to the right of the double X-ed breezeway is The Room and when we take down the breezeway, the brown door will return to being the front door of the main house. We procured the below solid mahogany door from an annoying 80yo British wood worker named Alan for $300. That will be the new front door eventually, but we're months away from that. *** This is where I mention that about a month after my last post