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My son, his wife and daughter, visited us from Florida the last two days. He has to be back at his base in Jacksonville on Monday so they left this morning to be home in time to watch the Colts game.
Yesterday he helped me lift all the large joists up to the second floor height. That makes it a lot easier to install them because I only need to measure to mark their positions on the beams and headers, stand them up and nail them. Today I got a full quarter of them installed by myself in just a few hours.
Thursday I built a quick and dirty platform on which to pitch three tents for our seven-person camp out. Here's what they looked like, and the whole thing stayed together! You can tell the slope of the hill there by the space under the nearly level platform.
As you can see from this picture, Sandy's youngest grandsons also joined us. The kids seemed to have a great time. After a grilled dinner, we built a campfire where we told ghost stories and toasted s'mores. The stars weren't quite as brilliant as usual, as the half-moon was casting shadows. We took turns admiring views of the moon's surface through our binoculars.
