Construction Begins

Just before Memorial Day, we have started construction.

Finally, the header boards are erected, and main beams are checked for being vertical and nailed in place.

Friday afternoon came and AT and his son Cooper and I traveled about an hour and a half south to the Shirley Mountains, at the Prior Flats campground.

We drove to the mountains and I took some pictures.

Lots of things coming up next week. I should be closing on Tuesday Morning, which should free up construction funding. We will be putting down first floor decking, which will let us lay out actual floorplan rather than the nominal one in the plans. Will rent the backhoe for a month to move the septic tank and do initial landscape work. Etc, etc, etc.

When we left Friday, the weather app on the iPhone showed clear weather for the next week. We had occasional rain showers up in the Shirley’s but it wasn’t noticeable except for Sunday morning. As we were driving back Monday morning it rained off and on all the way back, with the rain becoming a steady downpour as we got into town. By the looks of it Casper received 2-3 inches over the past couple of days.

When I got back, the cat had survived nicely (I had left him 3 cans of food, as well as the timed feeder). In fact, the below picture shows the leftover dry cat food.

Given the heavy overcast limiting Solar Power, I went out back to switch power back to Rocky Mountain Power I discovered a minor disaster./

Note the damage to the 2×12’s from the beefy lag screws. We had moved the support platform out from the C-Can to avoid damage to the outlet pictured above, and I think that removed some of the strength.