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Metal roof

Since we last spoke, the roof installers got the metal roof on. Hooray!


Before that, the framing crew covered everything with plywood to support the house wrap during the winter.


Eliot and Siggy moved the potty around with the giant telehandler.


Last week Eliot and I went up to work on the cabin a little last weekend on the way to Yakima. We got started on the foundation flashing. Then we got cold and out of the mood, so we just taped up some strips of scrap flashing for now. We'll come back to it later.


We came back up today to work on the one last big winterizing item. Our roofer put our chimney in, and he was also going to brace it to the roof, but he couldn't find the strap he needed, so he left it for us. Last week we went up and tried walking on the 45° metal; ha ha no. Today we tried again. In the mean time, the metal roof acquired some frost and ice. Hooray!


We built a 32' ladder out of a couple 2x4s and a bunch of scraps as cleats. (Sorry, no photo.) We pushed it up the roof and hooked it on the ridge. It was wobbly and scary, so I took it back down without ever climbing it. Apparently we need a Plan D.

But the winter weather meant some great scenery. Here are some ice falls and snowy mountains on the way up the pass.


Here are some ice crystals that grew out of a puddle under the cabin eaves.


And on Sunday, it's snowing again. Jon took these pictures from Seattle via the web camera on the shed-let.



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