basement walls

All of this lumber was delivered first thing this morning. They came out with it on a flat bed semi, not realizing how long our driveway was (or that it was a gravel driveway.) Since there was no way to back that big truck down the long gravel drive, they had to go back to the lumberyard and load it onto 2 smaller trucks to get it to the home site.

When we went by after school, there was a crew of 4 guys working on framing the basement walls. They didn't have as much done as I thought they would, but Walton tells me he's sure they had to spend a bunch of time this morning looking at the blueprints and getting organized to start framing. We did see them put up the wall with the opening for the garage door to Walton's workshop in the basement. I once again drew stares from the Hispanic work crew when I yelled "woo-hoo!" as they pushed it into place. (Mr. Middle School Kyle was of course embarassed by my crazy behavior. I earned a "MOM!" from him.) I was just excited to see progress happening right in front of my eyes! At least none of Kyle's friends were around to hear me. ;-)

The crew leader told Walton that they will work all day tomorrow, and that he expects it to take 2 weeks to do all the framing. We didn't think it would take quite that long - but we also didn't expect them to work today and tomorrow.