Timelapse 2/22 to 3/08 - Rain then Framing!

Towards the end of the clip you'll see the framing go up over the last week.
For next week I moved the camera back up the hill to look down at the build site and doubled the rate at which pictures are taken. It will be interesting to see how that turns out.

Framing day 3 photo..

North wall almost complete..

End of day 2

Finished up the day getting the back wall started..

You can make out the window locations and the door to the outside

A story of a wall...

You can see a structure through the trees..

a little closer

oh look a wall.. its quite tall

more wood for the pile

Looks like the back wall is next..

The 1st post is raised!

Another milestone is hit. Our first stick is up in the air.

1st corner post in the garage is up!

Sil plate was down all around the perimeter. Things should start changing fast from here!
More pics to come..

The drones are coming!

My old friend Eric T. came up with a r/c copter and did a couple of test flights. It was outfitted with a sony camcorder with a fisheye lens.. here's a picture of the copter:

Our robot oppressors have arrived

Below are the 2 movies taken during the flights. It was quite blustery on Saturday so we couldn't go that far without risking hitting branches etc.







It would be neat to launch this from the neighbors on a preprogrammed flight path to take pictures of the sight everyday!

Eric also sent me this link to a rant by Adam Corolla about building codes and retaining walls.. it hit home for me.. funny stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ZdY9BLbgQ

Lumber delivery! 3/1/14

Well this weekends project was about getting lumber up to the build pad. We took delivery at about 9:45 AM and the truck couldn't make it up the mush so he had to drop the load right at the bottom of the driveway. Which meant we had to human power it up the hill one stick at a time.

Lumber delivery as dropped off

  My 10 year old daughter Tanya and I lugged 2x6's up the hill all morning..

Starting to stack on the garage pad

Finished stack of wood

All done!

 At about 1pm we finished up. I also wanted to show you a pretty clever use of our stairwell. A few playwood boards and a door were used by our contractor to make a makshift shed to store equipment.

Creative interim use of stairwell

Framing will start this week.. there should be some more interesting pictures/video of the project once that starts.