Getting out of the rain

One of the facts of life in Volcano is the almost daily rain. Many days, it's just a light, misty sprinkle. But other times, it's a steady downpour. So we really looked forward to getting a roof over the house so that the inside could actually dry out. 

Raise high the roof beam

After I left at the end of spring break, George and Dave managed to put up the huge roof beams. This was a herculean feat! You can also see by the shine on the floor that there was a good bit of rain at the time.

The beams are one of the distinctive features that we really liked about this home design. Our original plan was to have a contractor do the house framing. Unfortunately, our budget was not quite big enough to accommodate his idea of a work schedule, which apparently included a lot of down time. He tried to convince us to just sit back at home in Idaho while he eventually got around to business, but that sounded like a great way to make him rich at our expense. So we told him thanks but we would muddle through without him.

And sure enough, George and Dave wrestled those beams into place and the roof started to take shape.