On Top O' the World

This Saturday Pop, Uncle John and Aunt Sandra came up to help. After lunch, Grandma Lana brought the children up, but they had fallen asleep on the way and didn't wake up for a bit.


Pop, Uncle John and I put together the framing for the basement windows as well as finshing the first floor of the cathedraled areas on the front of the house, in preparation of sheathing.


Meanwhile, Wendy and Aunt Sandra (and Grandma Lana when she arrived) worked on the sheathing on the wall that wasn't finished last week. Once that was done, Wendy worked on getting the treated 2x6s on in front of the basement window so we can really start sheathing without delay when we are ready.


Today (Sunday) was just Wendy and I. We slept in and got a later start than normal (noon actually). We arrived and cut the templates we had marked last weekend, got the rest of the wood we needed and then cut all the remaining peaks. We assembled and raised (in turn) the two back peaks and secured them. Then we put the remaining three bents together, raised them and put them in place.


Everything was secured before we celebrated, which included the tradition of attaching an evergreen to your framing. I found a site, which names this tradition the Whetting Bush and does a great job of explaining the significance of this tradition. Excited and tired (it took about six hours), we cleaned up and headed home for another weekend.

Thursday we will be working on the framing in the kitchen aisle so that the south side can be sheathed up to the loft floor at least. Next weekend we are going to try to gather a work crew to help with sheathing, framing and whatever else we have to do.