Pictures as promised!

Ok, so Brian didn't get to the picture postings. They did manage to get the tar paper on the roof and the stripping. So it is a little more water tight since we are expecting rain for a few days. Things got cleaned up some and the windows and doors were brought from the barn to inside of the house. We will be able to go look at the metal roofing on Monday since it will be raining anyway. I'm excited to see it under a roof! It seems to look bigger every day. I just love it. We get an almost constant breeze through the breezeway of the porch. A perfect place to be on a hot summer day. I really love our design, even though it's not so convenional.

Here are the pics from the last week...

Pictures!

Trusses are complete.

The trusses were finished up over the weekend and Ken showed up on Monday. He and Sonny finished nailing the exterior walls and filled in the 1 foot above all around. They even managed to completely cover one end, going for the opposite end tomorrow and getting the interior ones done by Friday.
Brian is off working in NC this week and will be home for the weekend as far as we know. There will be plenty for him to do come the weekend when I suspect the roofing sheats will go up.
Next week, after inspection, we should be wrapping the house and installing the windows and doors that await in the barn.
I have more pictures, but neglected to bring my laptop with me. Another day perhaps.
My youngest brother, a Sparky by trade because of my suggestion years ago is coming down with son and wife to wire the house for us. So a few more sets of family hands will toil away the sunny Florida days with us.
The garden flourishes... I can't wait for my first salad!

We appreciate all that read and follow along with our adventure. Your comments are welcomed!
hugs.. dea

Another Day of Trusses

Sonny, John, Charla and I put up 17 more trusses today. Only five to go! We stopped because the last ones are going to be a bit more difficult to put up because we are almost out of wall to hang them on. So we called it a day and are going to "sleep on" the problem. Okay, that and we were tired! :)

Slacking...

Yes, I've been slacking. I've missed two posts already. Time flies... Anyway, after moving trusses into the house, we know what space and path we need, so we did some more sheeting. Sonny cut more window and door wholes. We also did some odds and ends tasks. And pulled a stump out of the ground where we will be moving the shed.

Today, we cut the tops of the deck supports off and put in the rest of the nails we needed to secure the outside deck headers. There is nothing more that just Sonny and I can do on the house and it was too windy again to burn, so we called it a day.

More Trusses

John and Norma had an event this morning, so Sonny and I took the opportunity to put plywood on pallets as a temp floor for the pole barn, and to hang tarp around the back two thirds of it. Another truck load of pallets and we can get our stuff out of storage!

When the help arrived we knocked out truss after truss. It went very smooth and we finished building one.

Truss progress

There is something to be said about working out a rythem with those that you work on a project with; John, Brian, Charla, Norma, Dea and I started to click today, everyone filling in where and when they were needed. We only worked 3 short hours but we got 9 trusses up vs. the 8 we got up yesterday.

One building is done just leaving the breezeway and the side two. I figure we can get the remaining trusses up in one "good" day of work.

Of course there is still hurricane strapping to do on it all once the trusses are up, seems they have a strap for everything.

Trusses Part One

I showed up on property today and Sonny and John were already planning and laying tools out. Sonny had to go to the lumber place to get 1x4s and 2x4s for bracing. Meanwhile John and I carried 11 trusses up to building one and hung them across the walls. 30' trusses aren't light, though they weren't as heavy as I thought they'd be either. The end truss, is slightly shorter but with more supporting boards is also a tad heavier. After putting bracing in place, John and I tried to put it up (Sonny was still at the lumber place) and it came down on us. Neither one of us was hurt too much. But it was enough for us to realize we should wait for Sonny. After he arrived and a brief break for food. We proceeded to put up the trusses. We got 8 up in all. Was a little nerve racking and I was happy that neither one of them have an issue with heights. I got to keep my feet mostly, firmly planted on the floor (as you can tell by the pictures) while they played on the ladders. It was slow going at first, but we got into a groove. Dea, Charla and Norma (John's wife) were big helps as well. They made the process much easier.

Work Progresses...

After a couple down days; it was back at it yesterday. We decided that we could go ahead and sheet the inside walls. The ones facing the breezeway. We also filled in all the vertical gaps I left. Snagging Sonny's tablesaw from storage was a bit of a help. Though, not as much as we'd hoped. Sonny also started cutting out openings in building two.

Last Two Days...

I've done more cutting, clearing and burning where we will be moving the shed. WooHoo! YeeHaw! Excitement abounds! My heart overflowith with fun! Okay, not really. Anyway, it has to be done. And I have had some time to read while burning.