I was alone all day Monday and used
that day to layout the walls.
You go around the outside and mark
where every wall piece goes. You draw lines on the top and bottom plates to
show where you will put every piece and the kind of piece it is to be. Once you
mark both the top and bottom plates you stack them up as you see in the above
picture.
View from the south end.
They put up the hammock so I could
rest after lunch. I haven’t tried it out yet. I am afraid to lie in it because
if I do I will probably fall asleep and not wake up until it is time to leave
for home.
Except for around the stairs I got
the layout done and planned to build walls on Tuesday. I worked hard all day
with some help from Adam and got more done than planned. I will come close in
finishing up the framing on the main part of the house on Wednesday. Thursday
we plan to backfill.
When Jon got home from work he
worked for a short while before it was time for me to leave and time for him to
go to soccer practice with the kids.
Why is the old man working and the
young guy just watching? I think I am getting too old for this kind of work,
but I sure enjoy doing it. How many of you can bend over like this and work for
eight hours? Notice the bump in the middle of my back? When I was about five
years old I fell backwards off the farm truck and landed on my back on the
concrete sidewalk and broke three vertebras. As a result my back has always had
that curve in it.
I really like my saw. It does a nice
job.
When I came up from Texas I had more
tools than this in the back of my car.
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