First day and a half have been long, but productive.
Yesterday was a bit frustrating: we had several trips to Lowes, a wasp infestation, and unbearable heat to slow us down.
By 11 am it's really too hot to do much out there, even with the shade. It's been over 100 for the last month.
===MONDAY===
We got to the land around 8, and I helped GD (for ease, I will refer to Grandpa Downs as such) water all of the plants while Blake tried to get rid of the 3 waspnests in the structure.
I mostly sat around and not much building happened because it was hot.
We went back in the evening, framed a bit of the deck, and left at 9:30pm.
===TODAY===
Surveying the work to be done in the morning.
Arrived at 7, and started immediately on the deck framing. By 1 we had completed the structural framing for the flooring and weather sealed it all. We will go back this evening to install the flooring throughout the interior and exterior and possibly start framing up the next section of wall so that the canvas walls can be installed tomorrow.
Preparing to torque the middle beam into alignment. It was badly warped, but with a little ingenuity, a few screws, and muscle strength, we managed to straighten it back out.
We made a lot of progress and it feels good to see things take shape so quickly!
Weather sealing the structural frame of the deck after installation is complete.
The storage van (which will hopefully be organized soon) contains everything necessary: ax heads, random tools, bits of wire, assorted screws, a few varmints...
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