Dear Bob and Patty
Things change on the mountain in three days. We arrived thursday night, and spent the morning friday setting up scaffolding and installing the four windows on the north elevation over the stairwell.
Barak Jenn and Baeden arrived in the afternoon, and Barak helped me get the tyvek and windows on the sidewalls of the bumpout. We had our first impromptu party Friday night with the arrival of Chris, Erin, Oscar and Theo Young, and another family of Barak's friends from the Tripod/Williamstown days. Amid swarms of children roaming the meadow, I got the plates and sills for the guest tower laid out, and did a cutting list of stud lengths that corrected the 5/16 inch variation in first floor platform levelness. The deck of the porch served very well for a crowd of 14 humans and proto humans. The whole camp design begins to resonate with viability as a location for family gatherings. My sibs can take note that by fall three couples could no doubt be accomodated for a weekend!
Saturday, Louise assumed her station as skillsaw adept, and cut the studs while I did the marking and started nailing. Flipped up the walls, and got the LVLs (okay......laminated veneer lumber.......and Jason....smoo is construction adhesive) cut, sistered and installed. I love the engineering of the cantilevers going three directions. Everything just looks like a little box untill you look at what it is doing to generate its little boxness...
Sunday I finished the framing for the second floor platform, and we found a full sheet of 3/4 cdx ply and nailed it off in the observatory corner of the little tower, and took a picture of the view up the meadow toward the brook. Love it! Louise prepared the camp for our return for a full week, starting next Sunday.....I have a few hours to spend with the drawings, doing a shopping list for Taconic Lumber before then.
Louise did all the photography as I spent my weekend as a hammerin' fool..... Love to all....BSB
Posted by Bennett
at 9:06 AM EDT
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