January 11, 2006
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Two big milestones yesterday: Joy's formal legal adoption and the party to celebrate it (see "reviews" for photos soon), AND we moved to the next big stage of construction: framing!
Don't get me wrong, we're not finished with either the masonry or the steel, but we need a second floor surface to stand on before we can make more progress on those fronts.
Before anything can be built inside these block walls, they need to be painted. Not any old white paint;a moisture sealant to keep mold at bay and let the porous block breathe only to the outside. It will protect the interior woodframe from all sorts of problems.
Armando and Joy, playing in the opening for our front door. Those block walls are as high as they can get without the inner structure of the house to support them. Plus, since there is no room for scaffolding on the outside of the house, we'll build the 2nd floor for Lugo and his crew to stand on to do the second level of block.
Then the lumber arrived this morning. Lots of lumber.
By the afternoon, the framers had most of that first pile of lumber already put in, or at least laid out where needed...
...just in time for this next set of lumber to arrive (more neatly packaged).
