After much belabored deliberation and a long wait for fabrication, the much needed new windows for the living room arrived in a January thaw, a lovely weekend of low negative single digit temperatures.  Final decision was to go with a local Quebec manufacturer, Martin, aluminum clad clear select ponderosa pine with double glazed argon filled assemblies. With help from the godfathers, Calvin and Joe, and good old Rick, we managed to get them all hung on one long Saturday. Worked by myself Sunday from 8 am to 2 am insulating, trimming and applying finish, with the deadline of getting Jenny and John home as soon as possible. Took Monday off and spent the day airing out the varnish fumes and cleaning up the havoc, enhancing some openings with a chainsaw and cutting back the counter tops to accept the deeper window had kicked up a lot of dust. All said and done, put in in 42 hours over the weekend, lost 2 lbs and made a dramatic impact on the quality of our home, all just in time for temps to drop back down to -25 C, the norm of this time of year. I need a couple of weeks to recover before I do the doors, which will need a good varnishing before install. Pics to follow their installation.