Rafters

The crew is installing the rafters in the great room.

Rafters

The crew is working on the rafters which will be installed tomorrow.

Clerestory

Dumpster Delivered

More concrete

Today concrete work was done on the pad outside the garage.

Plans

Dan and Bryan are discussing plans. We are so impressed with Bryan and his crew.

Garage Trusses

Ceaser worked on the north side of the garage, setting the trusses. Since one more truss is needed to complete the garage area, a truss was removed so that Alex could make another one.

Garage Panel

Another panel in the garage is added.

East and West Wall Trusses

More wood

This load of wood came from Pueblo. Notice that at the end of the truck is a machine that the driver uses to unload the wood.

Welder

Trusses...oops

After the folk lift was delivered, Bryon was rearranging the trusses and backed over two of them. His crew will have to make new ones.

The Trusses Arrived

With a click of a button, the driver was able to unload the trusses, which were on his fancy truck.

Front Porch

The flat work guys showed up bright and early today and we now have a front porch.

Lunch

The crew is enjoying lunch. They continue to be a hard working group.

Now we have water!

We now have 400 gallons of water in the cistern. Since the water in the well on this property contains a high percentage of uranium, we have to haul water.

more interior walls

Garage wall

The north and west walls were installed today.

Framing

This view shows the framing on the east side of the house.

Chalk Line

The framers carefully measure and use a chalk line to place the framed walls before they cut the wood and build the walls.

The Heismanns

Today, while Zac was here, we spent the day watching the crew put up the SIPS panels for the house. It was a beautiful day in Colorado.

Water tank

We will have to haul water since the water in the well has a high amount of uranium. This tank will hold 450 gallons of water.

Zac's New Car

Visitors

Gus & Nancy stopped to see us for a couple of days on their way home from their trip to OH. Zac drove down for the day. Great to see family.

Walls in ONE day

First SIPS panel went up at about 11 this morning and all of the walls were up by about 6:30 tonight. There were four guys working on this and it was like watching a building ballet. Tomorrow they will start the framing on the inside of the house.

The work has begun

First the framers measured the foundation to check dimensions and squareness. Next a transit was used to check to see if it is level. The sill seal (blue stuff) was put down and then a board was placed on top.

Panels have arrived

They are finally here! The framer unloaded the SIP panels and arranged them around the foundation. Now things will start to happen.

VOC

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado is a statewide nonprofit volunteer organization whose mission is to motivate and enable citizens to become active stewards of Colorado’s natural resources. What a rewarding experience. These are some of the supplies that were used on the Saturday workday in which I participated. VOC is very organized.

We performed maintenance on the Marsh Quarry’s trails that were first built by VOC in 1996. The Quarry, which is located about 5 miles south of where we live, has produced the largest number of vertebrate type specimens of any single Morrison formation dinosaur locality. We also celebrated the First Annual Fossil Day with the Bureau of Land Management that manages the quarry.

Noah came to play

Rocks, rocks, rocks. Noah sure liked Grandpa's Rock Playground at Dilley.

Making Cookies

Aunt Jennie and Noah baked chocolate chip cookies. The "flour storm" along with dumping in the ingredients made for a fun experience. Eating was the best part. Yum!