Stucco Removal Started

We started the herculean task of removing the stucco from the house. We're only removing it from the bottom portion for the time being. It took 2 days to remove one side of the house, and the weather was hot, too. I tried working in the morning, but ended up using an umbrella to keep the sun off in the afternoon. The stucco is 2" thick in someplaces, and unfortunately the cedar siding is cracked in places, where the wire lathe was nailed on with 10d nails. The tar paper was nailed on too, instead of being stapled. There appears to be only 2 coats of paint on the siding, so I guess that's good. We want to repair as much as possible, be may have to replace some of the boards, we don't know if they make exactly the same size of siding though. The top of the house is cedar shingles. We'll have to replace some of those, when we get to it next year. Our neighbours think that we're bonkers, we've opened a huge can of worms. And now we have to live with this frankenstein look on the one side. We're going to try and paint and refinish each section as we go, so the whole house doesn't look like crap. I'm going to redo the water table (the bottom of the siding) before the winter rains hit. There are some rotten boards, where a sidewalk was poured up against the house. I'll try to salvage some of the wood there, and use some new stuff. I'm adding flashing as well, to kick the water away from the house. We're looking for some creative techniques to repair some of the split siding. I have some ideas, and we'll see how it goes.