The outside of our Irish cottage is finished

With the exception of one piece of trim and the flower beds, etc., the outside of our Irish cottage is finished as of today. I finished a little dab of painting on the south wall this afternoon... Aaron had run out of paint yesterday so I wrapped it up this afternoon instead of shooting off fireworks. Here's a long shot of the south side before construction cleanup is complete:

I also worked on laying leftover AAC blocks to create a pad for one of our two 1,600 gallon rainwater collection tanks. The second pad goes in tomorrow or the next day and then we can set the tanks, hook up the gutters to the system and start harvesting rain water. Here's the pad I finished today:
Alexis and her Mama did a lot of painting today so we're almost finished inside too.

So you'll understand how we are plumbing the rain water collection system, here is a rough diagram of the water flow:

Tomorrow we'll finish the little dab of painting that is left to be done on the inside and start cleaning the floors so they can be stained one room at a time... staining will be tough to do while we're living in the house.