Busy view

Today we started to put up the fascia boards, beginning on the west side. For this eave I connected two boards before putting them up because cutting them to meet at a rafter would have wasted a lot more wood. You can see where they come together. The caulk at the connection looks like a white scar with sutured stitches. It will be touched up when all the boards are in place.

I struggled with how Sandy and I could get the boards up and level them by ourselves. What worked was to clamp just one side of a joist hanger to some of the rafters with the other side hanging outside the rafter end. We then set the fascia board into the hanger and leveled it with shims. Screwing them in was easy then and didn't require a second person.

The 16-foot-long rafter visible to the right of the fascia is nailed to the top of the greenhouse wall and extends to the south side of the greenhouse over the foundation. The greenhouse wall will be built under it. In the mean time it is temporarily holding up a plastic covered, lattice like grid that can be seen to the left of the ladder.

Two doors are visible inside the greenhouse. The light one leads into the second bedroom; the other, to its right, into the living room.

The dark brown walls of the greenhouse are barn siding just as it came off the old barn. Of course Sandy cleaned every square inch of every board with a wire brush before I could use them.

The west end of the wall and the west side of the third bedroom still need siding panels installed.