More progress

We spent the day at the house yesterday. I mostly worked in the garden, and sought out the shade with my book, but Melissa got step one (pun intended) of the stairs complete. No more ladders to get to the second floor! It was hot (over 90) but it's amazing how cool it was inside the house. Thankfully there was a breeze, and the roof panels have some fancy reflective material that really shield the heat.

It's amazing how having the second floor and roof panels make it feel so different--and like so much has happened in a couple weeks. There is still months more work to do (more outside sheeting, roofing, plumbing, electrical, insulation, sheetrock, etc etc, etc, but there's enough in place now to really see how great it's going to be.

We spent some time on the second floor (yes, I had to climb the ladder again--NOT my favorite thing) reconfiguring the upstairs bathrooms yesterday (wow--this is a nice benefit of not being tied to plans and paying someone for each change) and I think it's going to work out nicely.

In the meantime, I picked 3 summer squashes, lettuce, nasturtiums and cilantro. And I pulled all the sugar snap peas out of the beds. The weeds are taking over, but I can't bring myself to use the Roundup in the vegetable garden. There's gotta be a better way.

Here are the photos of the house progress:

Front. Office on left. Panel (center) waiting to go to 2nd floor

Back. Living room right, kitchen center, laundry, garage left.

Side. Living room left, office and door right.

Step 1 of stairs.