Good Day Sunshine

Saturday was a good day with plenty of sunshine. Actually, a couple more clouds might have been nicer. It was toasty. All along, Eric and I had been planning on paying a real framer to help us out framing. We aren't totally nuts. It just hadn't worked out until Saturday. Saturday Steve, a foreman with the builder up the road came and worked 7-12 for us. In addition to him, we had Eric, my parents, Randy, Paul, Eric Wags, Amanda and Emil. We cranked out over half the first floor walls, hung the large truss girder over the garage, and placed the long TJIs for the 2nd floor over the garage and breakfast room. Sunday, Eric, Skip, Randy and Paul finished shoring up the TJIs and sheeted over them. Now I have a nice shady spot to hang out in the garage like a real Hoosier. Only, I'm missing all the NASCAR paraphernalia and beer. Sunday afternoon Eric and his dad finished rebuilding the rest of the conventional headers on the first floor. Here are some highlights.
"Looks plumb from my house."

Hooking the girder on the neighbor's lift.

Randy, the site's head safety officer...

I was told I needed more pics of me. Here's one.

Ooh Here's another one.

Placing the girder.