Day 2

Another productive day at the homestead. I didn't get there till noon, cuz i had to go grocery shopping, and get everyone lunch, and pick up some more nails, and since we don't live "in town" that took me ALL morning. So we got there at noon and the boys had the front and side wall up:

No, Kyle is not hitting Scott in the butt with that board, just a bad camera angle :)

Notice the nice tall ceilings...LOVE THEM! I think they are 9 ft tall. Where Kyle is standing is the mechanical room

The left of the pic is the front of the house. 2 windows and a door in the middle. The wall to the right is the living/play area. Where Scott is standing is the beginning of our pantry, then next to that on the right is a bathroom, then a laundry room that goes to the end of the house.

Here is the ginormous beam that we set today. Yes, scott, kyle and me manhandled it and got it set up on my lovely 9 foot walls :) Scott didn't know that he married She-rah. But then again, I didn't know that I married He-Man either so I guess we're even. But LOOK how cool my beam is!!! It is exposed thru the whole main floor and i LOVE IT! it will have two logs holding it up in the middle. (i worked all day stripping those logs....they get set tomorrow)

better view of the beam. Also the pantry is framed in this pic

Front of the house

More beam, and action Scott
living room/play area window. See the little 2x4 on the beam? that's how we lifted it. Pretty genious, huh.
Kitchen wall. Window on the left is where the bar is. Window on the right is over my sink.
random working shot

All in all a good day! we were excited to get the beam set so we don't have to try and recruit people tomorrow. Lane was also pretty good today, he is SUCH a trooper. He's been having fun at the building site. Tomorrow's plan is to put the last exterior wall on the first floor, and roll the second story floor system, and put in stairs (maybe)

Stay tuned! :)

(scott wants to add there's no "maybe" about it.....all that WILL get done tomorow......and more......the pressure is on!)