Trusses

We went over Wednesday after swimming lessons and lunch and watched the trusses being put up. The kids were kind of bored. Zach took a nap in the back seat after reading his book for a while. Kylee, Kaitlin, and Conner walked down to the river and explored. Then we had a hard time finding them as Road 76 doesn't exactly go all the way to the river. We thought they might have walked to Chiawana Park as that is what Conner wanted to do, but we didn't find them there so we finally returned to our land and the kids were waiting for us there. They had walked back while we had driven to the park. Oh well. So here are some pictures I took that day.

All of the trusses come pre-built on a truck. The truck has a crane attachment that it uses to load a bundle of trusses to the top of the house. The construction workers then put them in place standing and walking along the top of the house as you will see in the next picture. I would be a nervous wreck walking up there on the beams and then hammer and saw while up there as well.


There goes the first truss.

The whole house is all trussed up. It goes a lot faster than you would imagine. I could stay all day every day and watch our house being built as I think it is fascinating. I wouldn't get anything done all day. When the sewer was being put in at the house we live in right now, the street was all dug up and pipes were laid, and we canceled our normal school day and sat in the front yard and watched. The workers would come over and visit with us periodically and tell us what was going on and we shared our ice cold lemonade with them. It was really a fun school day.