I don't know if you can see the moon in the picture, it was halfway up the sky behind the house. It's a waxing moon, and maybe by the time it's fully waxed, we'll have all the walls up on this floor! We are feeling so optimistic and pleased this evening! What you see in the background are our two largest walls in the entire house! One of them is the kitchen window (three small windows in a little bank) and then the other wall is the rear wall of the dining room, which will have a pair of french doors leading to what will someday be a porch out back. Those walls were SO heavy. They are each twelve feet, and have some REALLY heavy headers in them. We had help lifting both of them, without which we couldn't have gotten them up (all the other walls we are lifting are in manageable 8 foot sections, but these had to be raised as twelve footers due to the windows being un-splittable, if that makes sense). The delivery man who works for EBS in the mornings helped us with the first wall, what a great fellow! He made our morning, and it took 5 minutes (building them is the hard part, aside from the extraordinary weight!), then Derek gave us a hand with the dining room wall in the evening. If these guys hadn't been so helpful, we wouldn't have this great feeling of happiness inside (though we'd be pretty darned glad that the walls were built) and we wouldn't have this great picture to share with you! We also cut all the lumber we needed for the side wall and the front wall, and framed up the next piece of the dining wall so it will be ready to put plywood on and raise first thing tomorrow morning, unless we get rained out. Hopefully we won't. We've had three glorious days in a row, with tons of sunshine all day long and no threat of any storms, so maybe we'll squeak out another day. With all the lumber measured, cut, and stacked in proper piles, we are ready to piece everything together. The progress is feeling pretty good so far, and it was a real morale booster to have help today from a pair of great mainers. :-)
G'night, we're beat!