The first wall on the way to closed in by fall!

Here it is! The first wall of the house is officially up and standing! It's a great feeling and the wood looked beautiful. The weather was super dicey today, rain was forecast, but we figured we'd give it our best shot and see what we could accomplish by starting early. It's very good that we started early, because it rained during the assembly of this wall, but after we got it up and standing (we assembled it on the floor of the basement, and then hoisted it up into place) and got all of the wood we had delivered carefully tarped, it started to absolutely downpour. And this is coming from people who spent a long time in the Pacific Northwest. This was an INCREDIBLE downpour! But we missed it! We were eating lunch in the truck debating whether to do some more work or just go get our groceries, but we opted to go get groceries as it seemed like we'd had enough good luck for one day.

When we came out of the co-op, here's how the weather looked...please see next frame...