nearer and nearer to a roof

We took the Christmas holiday weekend off from construction on bootsy star. We plan to get a lot done this weekend to make up for the time off.

The metal roofing was ready to pick up from Lowe's so we headed in on Friday morning.

James and the dudes from Lowes load up the metal

 First, James had to repair some wind damage to the tar paper.

Up, up to the top of the roof he goes

A man up in the sky...ish

Penny...just happy to be here

Oh! here he is from the other side!

Almost done

Time to lay out the South side of the roof

It looks like we've got a pretty exact match to the shop

Checking for the fit of the flashing

 Before we put the roof on, we needed to finish siding the North side of the shop and also the eaves on the West and East sides.

Finishing the siding

Note James new ear protection? He got those for Christmas! They attach to an mp3 player so he can listen to music while he works. It's funny to hear him break out some Mumford and Sons.....

This shot is purely for the ear protection

Notching out for the window on the North side

Side note: Isn't nature just the loveliest; the coolest?

Hunter is THRILLED to be out in 38 degree weather

Lunch break! Nichols...one of our favorites

Siding up the eaves

 Friday ended with the North side of the shop sided and most all of the eaves on the West.

This morning when we got up it was not raining. Lovely! I let the girls out and the beelined it outta the coop looking for worms and bugs.

Eloise is like 'what are you looking at?!'

This guy came back again today

 Can you spot  Penny in the photo below?

I don't know what this is....but I like it!

It was COLD but not raining

 The dogs and I walked around the property while James worked away. Note that Penny and Hunter are on the other side of our property line. How rude.

Penny and Hunter- rule breakers

Is that a blue sky?!

getting ready to add the flashing

level it out!

I'm up on the scaffolding!

Penny is trying to figure out how to get to me

Ok, on to the East eave

getting there....

completed West side

Just as he got to the top we lost the light

Until tomorrow.....

It was incredibly cold out there so when we lost the light we were not terrible disappointed. The plan for tomorrow is to finish those last few pieces of siding on the eave and then add the 12 pieces of metal roofing (six on each side) and the thing that goes over the top. ....whatever that is called!