We're Finally Building Walls!
One day, you've got the floor deck, and the next day you've got nine-foot walls! It's pretty cool, eh? For those who haven't seen the plans, we can all start imagining what this house is going to look like now. The four windows (right hand side) are looking from the dining room to the golf course. Eastman says if we were able-bodied we could set up a small table and chairs at the dining room and just look around. That might be fun, eh?

Anyhow, THIS is why I studied construction management... to be involved with building. I love the smell of lumber, watching the crew put all the pieces together like a puzzle... but somehow, there's still the day-to-day management of it that my father-in-law is handling brilliantly which if it were me... I'm not so sure it would be running as smooth.

Well, the project is smoother now than when we started. There was the surveyor who missed the building location, then the excavator...as Eastman said, the excavator knew how to dig, he just didn't have anywhere to put the dirt.

We'll take a small break tomorrow and start up again on Thursday. The second floor framing may be up by early next week. The biggest issue we have right now is pouring the structural slab for the garage. If we had just ordered the precast concrete slab for the garage when we started, it would've been delivered about now. Oh well, it was a crapshoot, I suppose.