A busy day, with threatening rain but no showers after all.

We were serenaded all afternoon with a cacophony of crashing and smashing as the waterline guys tried to button up their work down below on the building site - right where we want to be building bents come Saturday.

Looks like Thursday will bring enough rain to turn that to soup unless they can get it level and graveled on Wednesday. The hyperactive and charming Romanian stucco crew (the crew's from Romania, not the stucco) is all finished up except for striking their set. Their silo finish work is itself striking.

Back in the Festival Barn, work proceeds at a solid and comforting pace. B wall is being fit up with the usual lessons reinforced about what it really means to make the mortise a little bigger and the tenon a little smaller. These lessons are especially hard-won when the fit up consists of huge and heavy timbers on a sloped floor.

Kevin Lanier's compound crew are all but done (ETA Wednesday 10AM) how miraculous is that? Jayson Wilson over in BraceLand is looking for some Walnut brace stock for the center aisle and from the entry bent back to the ridge, just to liven things up a bit.

TimberWolf Tools expressed in the knives we needed for Brian Phillips tenoner - thanks Marc! Dennis Hambruck has made 45 new friends with his drill guide and other delights - all having a positive effect on attitude and production.

Hilti supplies and tools finally arrived, just in time, after some inexplicable delay in shipping. Thanks to Tom Haanen for his support. We'll likely start snapping lines on concrete Wednesday . . . .

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Crew size at rollout = 44
Manhours invested at the end of this day = 1812
Meals appreciated by the end of this day = 536