We drove to Kenai (about 3 hours away) on Friday afternoon to goto Home Depot. I had pre-ordered our plywood sheathing for the walls and roof (no OSB in THIS house). And, we got lots of other things as well. Leon (Eli's boss) brought his trailer up just for the occasion and after sitting idly while the Home Depot staff got their forklifts and such for about 1/2 hour, I decided to film the Home Depot guys doing their prided "double forklift" maneuver. After all, if




something went wrong, then I'd have the video footage of it. :) It all went fine though. NOthing even fell off on the way home

Then, today (Saturday) Eli and I started off our morning at the " MOther Of All Yard Sales" where we made out with some killer deals including 105 sq feet of double locking hardwood flooring. Yeah baby! We also got a big huge snow thrower for this coming winter and a couple of specialty drills/drivers. And best of all, the yard sale was for my realtor who is moving to Arizona for health reason. She is a wonderful woman and Eli and I have been following her daughter's home building blog for inspiration.

Once we got back home we barely had enough time to eat breakfast before help arrived. Eli's boss stayed for most of the day and helped up put in more bracing under the house and some :squash blocks".

I couldn't help myself when we were putting in some blocking on the underside of the subfloor. I HAD to put a little love into the house.

Then, once we had all the extra bracing was in place and we tested the floor with some dancing and an open glass of water, we moved on to building our first wall. We started with our South wall. We opted to make out future steps a bit easier by putting the sheathing on before erecting the wall. Later, we'll cut out the holes for windows and doors.