Jeff Weinbender is a my hero of the day for Tuesday, 27 February 2007. As I posted earlier, we had a pretty hard night on Monday night. We went to bed at 4a, but at 4:30a I was still awake, so I decided to go to work because I couldn’t sleep. Thus, after a full day’s work I was back home at 4:30p. I analyzed my situation in my foggy head and decided the best use of my time was to to get plywood up between the trusses to prevent reduce the amount of pooling that could occur in the tarps by providing a floor. The idea is no more sagging. I carried up 16 sheets of 1/2″ plywood and a bunch of 2x4s and then realized I would not be able to get the plywood up (8.5 feet from the deck) by myself. I called Jeff at 5p and he graciously came over and together we got plywood installed in every bay by 7:30p. Whew! He was back home in time to shower and watch American Idol. Thanks Jeff. An added bonus of having that plywood up there is that there is less room for wind to get up under the tarps. That means less noise, hopefully. It is hard to sleep sometimes when you live inside a drum. Additionally, I got some pictures of the outside of the new construction. I found a program on the internet that automates the stitching of digital images into a panorama. I’ll definitely be experimenting with this in the coming weeks as the exterior of the house begins to take shape.
Weather Underground reports that yesterdays max winds in Carpinteria were 25 mph with 30 mph max gusts.