The window is up!

All fall my brother Rick has been making a stained glass window for his kitchen. It matches a set of windows that our father made maybe 30 years ago for the kitchen in the house we grew up in. They're in Rick's kitchen now, but I foolishly did not take a picture of them.

He wanted to get the window done and moved upstairs while there were lots of people to help, and he & my dad spent much of the week working on it. Dean was drafted, too, and quickly learned to foil glass with the best of them. (Do I have the lingo right?)

I didn't get many pictures of them working. Here's Rick washing the window after it was done:


And here are Dean and Dad watching him. Dad protested that this was a very unfair photo, and it was, but hey -- it's the only one I've gotten. I can assure you that he worked constantly up until this moment. Really.

I did run to get my camera when they started to bring the window up from the workshop. One way or the other, I figured it was worth documenting.



The window comes up the stairs fastened to its protective backing.

The backing is removed. You can see just the teensiest corner of the original windows over the sink.

Dean and Rick carry the window to its new home. (Careful, no flexing!) Another bit of the original windows is visible over Rick's shoulder.


Don't the colors look great?!

Then there was lots of methodical centering and fastening -- oh, and some windex action on the backside of the glass. I didn't stick around, and so I don't have a final, finished, in-place photo. But I think you can see that it is splendid.