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Our roof!

Trusses were delivered in a big stack – that almost didn’t make it off the truck. Several hours, a broken hydraulic line and a backhoe later, everything was unloaded.

Each truss was carried from the pile, up the ramp and onto the house.

Then cranked up manually with a duct lift. David did most of the cranking and must have had some kind of muscle by the end. I cranked up just two and was sore the next day.

Once they were on top of the walls, each truss was drug into place and attached to the one before.

Here all the trusses are in place and boards are laid across the top, ready for the roof!

I love the way the sunlight plays through the boards, leaving spots and shadows across the floors and walls.

And this is the overhang for our back porch. We stained the ends using a roller and a long extension handle – took me all day!