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This is the view from the back of the house. Chris was able to get the front wall framed and I was able to cut the rafters during the week this last week. Chris doesn't have too much time to work on the house at night now because it is getting dark so early and he is getting home so late. Weekends seem to be the only time we can get anything done and then we seem to only get one day in at best.

We laid out the track for the interior wall on the back side of the living room. The walls there will be 10 foot tall.

This is the brace that Hunter welded together one night. It runs the length of the living room and holds up the rafters for the roof. It took a lot of finesse to get the beam into place so high up with only Chris and Hunter( who is 17) doing the heavy lifting. The beam we got in a pile of material at an auction for $50.

Chris framing the back wall of the living room.

In this picture( although hard to see) it shows the front 6 windows. Three on each side of the door which also has sidelights to it.

The back framed wall with rafters. We have to do the rest of the exterior framing and the framing for the porch before any more of the rafters can go up.The rafters we also purchased at a building material auction. They cost $100 for 60 of them and they were 10. The pile of pallets will be what we use to frame the rest of the exterior walls, more on that when we get to it though.