For Christmas, we got windows

The windows we ordered in July came just in time, and just for Christmas. They arrived about two months later than we thought, although apparently no later than we had been promised them. Minor miscommunication I guess.

In the yawning gap between us being ready for the windows, and the windows actually arriving, our builder moved on to the phase right after the windows go in. Usually they wait for windows before wrapping the house, insulating it and beginning to drywall. In the hope of stealing some lost time back, our builder  started some of that work in advance. For a while the whole house was wrapped - window openings and all.

I bet our neighbours were getting worried at this point:  That's a very unfriendly looking house.

Getting a head start on the insulation seemed like a good idea till some actual winter weather - the sort we don't get much of around here - arrived. Rain sneaked through the gaps in the wrap, soaking into a few patches of insulation, and in a couple of places the wind tore it and took a few sheets of insulation down to the baseball field.

Finally, not in October as predicted, but some time after the insulation went in and was messed about with, right between rainy spells, the windows came. Just before Christmas. And they look gorgeous. These are the sliders onto the patio.

These long tall ones are in the library, and there's that insulation too - which was in and stuffed and, um, ready to receive.

The windows arriving just in time for Christmas was a bit like getting a new gadget under the tree, but one without its batteries. Or a set of Christmas pyjamas missing their bottoms. Or something like that. The delivery was missing five crucial (I mean, aren't they all?) windows, and one of the finished units that came was weirdly upside down. Still, it felt like a leap forward and we were festively thrilled.

Fortunately before the year was out we got the full set. Two of them have the wrong kind of glass but apparently they can fix that once they're installed. So now the insulation is safe from the elements, the drywalling can commence - and our neighbors no longer need to worry that we're building a mausoleum.