When she wasn’t busy earning money to pay for the project, Michelle worked as well, here screwing down floor decking.

Before there was a roof, there was a floor.  At left you see the steel floor trusses.  These were the crew’s first venture into erecting steel.  All of the steel, including both the floor and roof trusses, came as straight sticks that had to be located (in the unsorted, poorly labeled...

Pump day starts very early in the morning (although this photo isn’t from pump day, it’s just pretty).  Anyway, this was what my “office” looked like on most mornings.

It got a little crowded on the basement slab.  We assembled the floor trusses first, in order to have them ready, and then had to stack them all diagonally in the middle while we built the ICF around.  This photo shows the basement ICF almost complete, including a band of steel around the...