thursday the 20th.

Thus begins the heat wave--all over North America I'm given to understand. (It's a pity Mike isn't here to enjoy it with us.)

Today was a day of forming. There have been requests to "break down" the building process in a more detailed way. We aim to please, so a more detailed documentation of what we did is forth comming.

First some caveats:

1. As you have noticed, the way time is dealt with in blog world is somewhat backwards. I will number the steps in the process to (hopefully) alleviate any confusion.

2. Thus far, this blog thing only lets 5 pictures appear per blog. In that instance, today's goings-on will be split over a few blogs. Again, we will try to be clear so as to stem the confusion and keep hurt feelings to a minimum.

That said,

1. here is a picture of the site first thing this morning. This is the 'before' shot.


2. we put down these, uh, pieces of wood (can't think of the proper term at present) to which the end panels get affixed. These so called pieces of wood are spaced very carefully so as to insure that there is enough room for the windows which shall reside on either side of the wall.


3. Here is the end pannel set up against the piece of wood.


3a. Here is the end pannel being set against the piece of wood on the footing.


4. The end pannel gets braced to the to of the wall. On the left you can see the wall with two of those pieces of wood we were just talking about. On the right you can see the end pannel. The next step is to connect the two.