First floor exterior walls complete

Today began with Chase and Katie coming over and making us donuts! Right on our workbench! Mmmm.

Then they rode our Construction Dragons.

And then they got serious, helping us put up the last sections of first level wall.

Behold! Walls everywhere! The open bit at the far end will have a big column in the center and otherwise be sliding doors.

Eliot made these custom relief studs to clear the HDU brackets. We are done with HDUs finally.

We had one more little section of wall to install, in place. This is where the stairs go; Eliot is hanging through the stair landing window opening.

Jon installed Mister Boot Cleaner at the little cabin.

So we had this forklift here yesterday for the wall section. Might as well use it to rearrange stacks of lumber!

And our little tool kiosk.

Let's put it over here.

Eliot scooting around measuring out the first interior wall.

Jon cut a notch in the floor to receive the Big ... column.

This little hole will have a 30' column in it next weekend. We hope.

Here's a section of wall Eliot put together tonight.

Sunday night. Not much is open, so we've become regulars at the Bellevue IHOP.

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A really big hole

The excavation team came today. Paul, the excavator driver, helped Siggy scoop and dump the bucket. Then he taught Eliot how to drive and set him loose: The crew did get the foundation hole dug: Meanwhile, much of the family got a good start on painting the shop:

Current events

Saturday Dan rode up with Eliot and I; Christina brought David, JJ, Peter, and Hannah. Lunch was eleven people. Another dump run. David worked on the pantry for the shedlet. We had to install one panel of siding so the meter base would end up on top of it. Dan & Eliot preparing the meter base and panels for dry fitting. Meter base is mounted; fitting the conduit. Sunday Preparing and installing the service entrance conductors. A shout out to my friend Brett who spent a few hours on the phone talking electrian-shop this week! This panel/meter layout and conduit routing was Eliot's solution to our panel placement problem. Meter base installed and wired to panels! Panels bonded & grounded to Ufer ground. An Ufer ground is basically rebar near the bottom of the concrete foundation that's continuous up through an access stub where it can be wired to the panel. Remarkably, the moisture in the concr...

Getting going on electrical

Today we met with an electrician for advice, and then installed our temporary service pole and our meter and panel for the shop: We also pounded in the indoor receptacles, and covered the attic vents with critter resistant mesh. We also passed our foundation wall inspection. And we took a load of construction debris to the dump. Also I think we saw a bear. Update. It was probably this particular bear. Our neighbors snapped this photo the next day, writing "Hello all, we just had a young visitor-a yearling cinnamon black bear."

Howell Cabin

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