Obstacles, but finally, Walls!

We're completely exhausted at this point from three consecutive days of building. But we're dedicated to working through the week and next weekend, to try and catch up (the goal is, after all, weather tightness before snow -- and knowing Rochester, that will likely be before Halloween). We are certainly making progress, but let me just say (sorry if you've heard this already on every other tiny house build blog!), everything takes longer than you think it will.

It's shocking, really, how long it can take to get a trailer level. We spent half our day today checking level, extending the lift jack, adjusting the screw on a support jack stand, lowering the lift jack, and repeating.

In the end, since the ground is so much lower on one side of the trailer, we had to have one support jack on the back extended over two feet high, while the one on the opposite corner is screwed all the way in to its shortest setting.

Here Jeremy and all of us are relaxing under the popup awning while we wait for the rain to subside a bit.

This is one of the rocks we put on the tarps to weigh them down against the wind. Great for the wind, but we have a tendency pull the tarp off and fold it over the rock, making it invisible under there...until you trip over it. Again and again. All day. Really, it's a miracle none of us have broken an ankle tripping over these rocks :)

Finally started laying out the studs for the south wall.

We got this far before I realized, with a sinking feeling, that I had measured incorrectly. It was late, and we needed a supply run anyways, so we just called it a night. Tomorrow morning, I get to start by ripping out the nails on most of these studs, moving them a few inches left, and re-nailing them. Still, I'm happy we noticed the mistake 6 studs in to the 19-stud long wall!