framing our home, day one

First we had the floor joists all set up (from last week) and pegged, then we took on side and joined & pegged it on top of the floor joists. We had to wench it together in order to get it to assemble properly.



Next, CJ would heft the side wall upwards while I guided the tennons into the mortises.



This is about the only time you will ever find me level headed :p



I'm not sure if you can see CJ beaming, but he sure earned it after hefting both those walls by himself!



Those little containers are holding the first of our future garden :)



To tie in the frame we had to get the top beam locked in. We only had one freestanding ladder and one leaning ladder, so what we decided to do was drive the tractor up to the frame and raise and lock the bucket. I climbed up the leaning ladder into the bucked and adjusted my side from there.



It worked!



It's hard to believe how much we got accomplished in just HALF a day.

This is our view of the setting sun from what will eventually be our front door and porch (later down the road).

I love using the Ryobi (Japanese pull saw) to trim up the pegs.



That was actually the easy part, day two was rough!