It's too hot!

Well, it is in the city - up country its wonderful; wore my sweat shirt each morning and evening!
The job (that pays) has begun, so the momentum on the cabin has slowed; this week I met with a roofer and worked the grounds as a change of pace - continuing to cut trails that my wife began.
The land is so nice - it has been a real treat being here so often watching how the environment changes. In late May the wild strawberries and oregano were everywhere; now blackberries and thyme carpet the ground. Swaths of purple flowers blanket the ground - when you walk over them the air is filled with the scent of thyme. It's magical.
As for animals; first it was dozens of chipmunks, now its dozens (hundreds?) of cotton tailed rabbit. Plus the normal deer, wild turkey, fox, with rumors of coyote and bear. And spiders and snakes and salamanders - the really cool florescent ones! And birds - forget about it! I can't even begin, lets just say that most of the time I feel like I live in a bird sanctuary. Happily the bugs aren't terrible this year.

the rafters

What I did during the heatwave - 90 - 100 degrees F.
The rafters and collar ties are in, I just need to add the outer rafters, sub-fascia and fascia, then on to the plywood, tar paper, and metal roof!
Will also need to finish off the T1-11, two windows and the door.

missing pictures

These are pictures I missed posting from a number of weeks ago.
Framing was a breeze (I had some help!) and putting up the second course of T1 -11 was fairly straight forward - once we figured out the system. The best way turned out to be to pass the T1-11 to the second floor and have 2 people on the second floor pass it to a third person who is out on a ladder. Then once the sheet is in place, the ladder person person nails in the sheets.

Nothing like the threat of rain to light a fire! The ^%$#@ rafters are in, covered with the tarp so therefore no pictures. Believe me, it is a beautiful thing. If I never see another 2 by 12 piece of lumber that I have to carry up to a roof, boy will I be happy!
Just as I finished, the skies cleared and it turned into a wonderfully breezy hot summer afternoon.

A tarp!!?! Where was my brain all these days of 90+ degrees with blaring sun!??!
Caboodles better, and the rafters are going in fairly quickly – looking for a roofer to finish the rest of the roof though, I am running out of time – my job is calling!

Remiss in keeping up with the blog – so sorry!
Lots happened, but lots of work too, without much time to pause. The second floor went in (pictures on the other computer, coming soon) and now beginning the roof. The weather has sort of been cooperating in that it isn’t raining – but it is HOT and DRY. Our water collection system, which collects rain water, has dried out – that means buying water, or filling up in the city. My low tech hot water system - a black barrel - is working, it seems to need two days over 90 degrees, and boy have we had that!