Garage work through the end of June

We're grateful this month for Owen's job with a roofing company, because he was able to bring home the trailer with the metal break so we could custom bend the flashing we need to go over the rigid insulation over the foundation wall! Precision bending of 10' long pieces of sheet metal is not something that goes well without the right tool!

That's me* and Matt inside the trailer...

Always fun when Owen's around to help with some of the work. He may still live with us, but we don't usually see him much during the day! (Just hear and smell when he's making Ramen at 1am!)   

Matt's at the south-east corner. That was an interesting corner to cover!

One really exciting thing about getting the metal flashing installed is that we can now 1) backfill! (which not only gets the backfilling done but also means we're working down the big pile of dirt that's been filling the part of the yard where we have our bonfires!) and 2) start putting siding onto the main garage!

First pass at backfilling - still need a good rain to help settle it in.

We designed the back deck to be flush with the ground on the north and east ends - on the north end we're going to let our raspberry bushes migrate closer so Bobbi can wheel out and pick her own berries in the summer, and the east end will be our best wheelchair access into the yard - both by the vegetable garden AND to the east yard where we have bonfires!

Rinnah's getting big enough that she can take my place for holding things. Here she and Matt are putting up the vertical board siding on the west side of the *back* part of the flat-roofed entry. Big progress today!

And here's a view down the north side, which is also over 2/3 of the way done.

*Because I'm writing these posts after the fact and back-dating them (hoping to eventually get caught up enough that I can post in real time again! But not holding my breath on that), I had debated sharing this, but since a large part of the purpose of this blog currently is to provide a bit of family history for us to look back on, and because it's in keeping with the spirit of the blog, here goes - there are actually three of us in that trailer. :) In that photo, I am ten weeks pregnant with a most delightful surprise. We know now that we did not get to keep that little one, but on that day I was still joyfully carrying someone who would have been our eleventh child. So much room for more in our hearts!