Fall colors gone, this is still a pretty view I'll see from my bedroom window. That's our barn standing (against all odds) on the righthand side, and the gnarled tree in the foreground is one of 11 gnarled and hollow old apple trees in our fields. This year we got a respectable 20 five gallon buckets of apples from them.





Progress Report on the Work in Progress... now that we are starting to notice some changes.


This is how the house looked around November 4th. Kevan elicited help from Peter and Casey to put the roof beams onto the bents. You can see the constructed beams on the bedroom floor waiting to be lifted into place. The instructions said to lift them in pairs, but it was all we could manage to get one up at a time. As the day was calm, we had no problems doing it this way. We did, however, brace them as we went along.









Here are the last three roof beams waiting to be put in place. Kevan made these on his own and it was all he could do to lift them upright and manouver them to where you see them.



























Here you can see the framing of the windows and the gable end nearest the road.














Framing complete and now ready to start putting the 1"x8" t&g white pine sheathing on the building. Did you ever think you'd see the day!?

This sheathing will be the inside finish of the house but is put on the outside of the framing so that the framing is exposed to the inside.








This is Pecca, our legal immigrant dog from the wilds of Mexico. Our daughter wanted to give us a truly unique souvenier of her summer of archaeology in Puebla, and Pecca was it.

He's still a puppy, but he is good at helping Sophie with the napping. "So you don't have to" he says. Muchas gracias, Pec.