Looked forward to making some progress on this 3 day weekend. I am happy to say that we did make some noticeable progress. Still a little bit more before we can start sheeting the roof and put the shingles on. Sprinkling when we stopped working. Looks like it might rain on Wednesday, but we will not get to the roofing part until a week or two. Need to set up the scaffolding to be able to have easier access to the roof. Neither of us bounce anymore and doing it from a ladder, isn’t going to do it.
Saturday I did a little bit of painting to areas I knew I wouldn’t be able to reach when the roof starts going up.
Sunday, Lynn put up the roof rafters and I began putting on the clips. There were two rafters that had a twist in them so they are not battened down just yet, but when the scaffolding is put up we can tackle that job. It was hard on Lynn, but he managed to do them with a lot of resting in between. I am so proud of him. I know he doesn’t feel good, but he will not let me hire it done. He doesn’t want to hire anyone to do what he feels he can do.
Today, I spent the morning putting up the ceiling joists while Lynn used the nail gun on them. We stopped around1:30 as we were both tuckered out. This is all that will get done this weekend.
Tomorrow, Lynn has a consultation with the doctor that will be placing his pace maker. I hope all goes well at that meeting as they have been unable to regulate his heartbeat with medication. His heartbeat is always racing 110 to 140+ beats per minute, and that is the resting heart rate. No wonder he feels exhausted all the time. This has been happening over an extended period of time, so he hasn’t felt well in a long long time.
Things left to do are, sheeting and roofing, building the balusters, and making gates or doors. Then a little more painting. After that I need to finish taking off and replacing the crown molding and fascia on the side of the house, that needs to be done before winter. Then I will be moving inside for the winter. I can work outside in the heat, but I hate the cold.
Now for the pictures.
Annie, palm-nailing queen.
15yearsandcountingdream 