Thursday - Saturday of this week we planned on framing. We got 95%+ of it done and that is with mother nature not helping us at all. More on that in a second. Thanks to my Dad the Dotys and Riley we pretty much reached our goal. We actually probably could have finished it out today, but we ran out of supplies, thanks to mother nature, and to take that extra hour to go get what we needed would have put everyone behind getting to work, etc. tonight. And quite frankly at this point, after an hour's break, we wouldn't have wanted to start back up! All we have left is to frame in 1 door and 1 window and then a bit of sheeting around both doors, and the garage door wall. Now to the mother nature part of this story. So yesterday we finished the sheeting and windows on two walls and the framing was done on the 3rd wall. The garage opening was not done, because the beams for it were delivered later in the day on Friday. When we decided to call it a day Friday, we put a few supports on the walls and went in. Well just around 11:00 pm the wind started kicking up. It started gusting pretty bad. Around 12:15 am I heard a noise and went to check on it. Sure enough the garage part of the one completed wall had gone down, and it compromised the interior wall dividing the two spaces - since you know they were attached to each other. That wall was swaying very perilously. If it had gone down it would have compromised the next wall and then the next, and potentially it all could have gone down. I ran and got Eric, Carsyn, and Ashly and then ran back out to hold up the swaying wall (only 2X4s on this one thank heavens!) Carsyn got out and helped me while Eric and Ashly put on more supports. It took about 45 minutes and shortly after we were done the wind stopped! Oh well. Needless to say the first 3 hours of this morning were spent putting everything right again. Thank heavens we had the Hurricane straps to make it easier! Anyway before we called it a day today, you better believe we put way more supports on and of course it helped that the 4th wall was framed in too! See the Aha moments page for a bit more musings on this. (I'm going to type that up next so if you see this before 7:45 pm on Saturday the 22nd, don't go to the AHA page yet.)
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