We took the morning off!

Folks are pretty toasted after a week of heavy work.

There are no looming weather issues . . . yet.

The schedule us 'right where we want to be'.

So we didn't assemble until noon, when Lou Lanwermeyer thoughtfully and generously brought us lunch from the local mom & pop pizza shop, supplemented by boxes of fruit and energy bars. Good stuff.

We had a chance to meet GC Joe Murray's family, and had a good chat with them, too.

So with extra sleep and clean laundry we met the middle of the day head on.

Gabel's excellent site crew finished up the first bent down (4) and started accepting pieces for the next layup (1). We had an interesting diversion of Brian Phillips and Ira Frederichs designing and deploying a high-line delivery system. We needed to do something because the site is so tight, and expected to get tighter as we add bents, and as the contractors swarm over us to complete the sidewalk, another concrete pour, installation of silo caps, and back-filling of the retaining wall.

The highline, subject to much elongation, was eventually dismantled and replaced by a telehandler, as the ground is drying up - we're not as likely as we were last week to get the machinery mired in the muck.

Up in the cutting barn another bent is being testfit (trimming here and there) and marked for pegging. All other cutting is winding down . . . but a day or more away from completion. Still looks like we're on schedule, somehow.

David Blackwell took over the scribing crew from Stephen Morrison for the day. Much progress was made on prepping the second banana-beam for inclusion into the entry bent. It's going to look sharp.

The boys had a rousing game of stump after dark with the arriving blacksmiths, who seem like nice enough fellows and gals and share some interests with the timberframers. You probably can guess which ones.

Smiths will begin in earnest on Monday making post bases and other fixtures for our project.

Crew size at rollout = 37
Manhours invested at the end of this day = 3842
Meals appreciated by the end of this day = 1066

Total bandaids to date = 3, and holding steady

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