Somehow all my words of wisdom did not get saved as a draft. Suffice it to say that eventually the siding did get finished and I then moved on to replacing the flat roof. 
The roof previously was not properly sloped and water pooled in the middle. Birds loved this but it wasn’t that great structurally. To make things worse, water from the roof poured onto the garage roof which caused problems when there was heavy rain (as last spring.). When the roof was repaired they removed the wood and reinforced the posts with Blu Wood. They sloped it to the rear of the house and added new eavestroughs there which directed the rain to the back yard (and rain barrels.)
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