You'll be floored when you read this update.

We thought we were basically done preparing the joists, but it took all day Saturday to install vertical blocking (to support posts above), ladder blocking (to support walls that teeter on the rim board), and A35 shear wall connectors:

Here's Eliot nailing in the last A35 an hour after sunset.

Meanwhile, Christina painted the shedlet, and Guinivere read a book.

Sunday

Siggy and Eliot re-measured and re-squared the top surface of the joists.

We finally got the joists leveled off and began learning how to install the plywood subfloor.

Siobhan and Siggy turned a few screws.

Eliot turned a lot more screws.

We glued and screwed all the plywood to make a solid, squeak-resistant floor.

It was hot.

As the floor materialized, the foundation hole is starting to look like a proper eerie crawlspace!

We got more than half of the plywood installed.

Meanwhile, in the shedlet: Last year, Jon bought supplies for a finish floor based on $1/square foot of clearance vinyl flooring from the hardware store. Christina said "I'll install that."

It turns out the stuff is infuriating. It's flimsy fiberboard. To get it to interlock, you have to hold a 16-foot-long row of four pieces at just the right angle, push it in, and bend it down. This requires having four arms that span at least twelve feet. If you fail, the pieces fall apart, or bits flake off the fiber board and end up blocking the interlocking mechanism.

Christina was trying to do it singlehandedly, and got really frustrated. At one point she exclaimed: "Why can't I do this? It's a puzzle and the pieces are rectangles!!"

Eventually, we figured out that more hands were required to balance the delicate garbage flooring. With Christina, Siggy, and Jon in place, we finally got the pieces together. Now our shedlet has a clean-ish vinyl floor!

Christina: "We are not putting this garbage in the big cabin."