The pich of the roof goes up . . .

Although it was raining this morning (Friday), the crew showed up to clean up just as we were leaving for lunch.

Looking through the framing on the first floor of the barn toward the back . . .

The plywood on the floor is there to protect it during the construction.

A first look at the second floor of the barn from the back.

As you can see, the front of the second floor will have a killer view. Currently, the second floor is supposed to hold my sewing stuff and the wrapping station. Maybe I should move my office into it too. We will have to see how hot it is in the summer time. It will be insulated, maybe—with night flushing and blinds it would work.

The driver was all alone, but was very skillfull at unloading this heavy (2000+lbs.) beam. He backed up to exactly where he wanted to unload it, then pulled forward about 15 feet and stopped. Then he backed up 15 feet very fast and breaked. The momentum caused the beam to slip back off the truck about 5 feet.

After doing this several times, the beam was tipped off the back of the truck with one end on the ground. He got out of the truck to make sure it was still positioned correctly (as you see hem doing here).

Once the end was touching the ground—it was actually resting on the previously delivered beams—he would back slowly up, which would push the end further along on the beam below. Then he would drive forward a short ways and the beam would slip further off the truck. When the beam finally came off the truck completely, it landed perfectly on top of the other beams. Amazing!