By Thursday evening, the garage and workshop looked like this.
Friday started out under cool, clear skies which turned very warm and gusty by mid-afternoon. While the Bros. Rempel finished up the roof on the backside of the workshop before moving on to the mudroom roof, Davis & I worked on the south roof of the garage. Here's how things looked by lunch.
We moved on to the loft trusses after a quick lunch break. We had hung six trusses up on the wall plates at the beginning of the week, with the remainder cluttering up the loft floor. Getting Davis' new wall-hook scaffolding up and truing the walls took about 30 minutes.
However, from the time we started hoisting the trusses into place until all were secured took slightly more than 90 minutes.
The 90 minutes, however, provided for some "high timber" gymnastics by DND. I, as cheque writer, was strongly encouraged not to come up above the wall plate, lest I injure my left hand in the process.
Ruth & I returned to the Ridge on Saturday morning to sweep the house floors in anticipation of the potential thunder showers that had been forecast. We were back again at about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday with the trailered garden tractor in tow. After a few minutes of orientation on the operation of a hydrostatic transmission, Ruth was off on a blissful, goofy-grinned two-hour ride, mowing the ridge north of the house in the process. Meanwhile, I loaded several trailerloads of slash and moved them to the field beside the sand piles for future burning. Then, after moving several loads of logs from the driveway area to the woodpile, we piled exhaustedly into the car. It seems I may have experienced a bit of sun stroke, as the remainder of the day was a blur of sleep.
Tuesday's forecast is for more than 20 mm of rain, so a short week may be further truncated. Our timelines don't allow for this kind of slippage, but there's not much to be done about it.
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