May 30th, 2009

It was a beautiful sunny Saturday to get work done on our house, and we got a lot done. But, some of us paid the price of all that sun with a little sun burn. We removed the last remanants of the old third floor which turned out to be a bit more exciting than desired. A piece of mortar fell on my head as we cut a joist down and we soon discovered a small carpendar bee's nest hidden in some of the old insulation. Most of the bees moved off, but Anthony got stung on the cheeck, doh. After all that excitement, we continued framing and laying new joists, while another team began framing the walls on the first floor. A team building activity the week before had finished up the subfloor on the second floor, so we are really moving on the framing which is good since the plan is to have most of the framing done by the end of June. We need to get working on the roof after that since there is no roof at all right now, leaving our nice subfloor exposed to rain and sun - a major warping combination.

In_the left photo, framing of the kitchen gets finished up on the first floor. While on the right is a photograph looking up throught the second floor to the third floor joists and the lack of roof.