day . 57

today was pretend friday, because easter is this weekend and we have a 3 day weekend! we started the day by taking out the next to last i-joist and replacing it. the one we took out was nasty, or not pretty as robert would say. it was all gray and yucky. so we went to get it out and i was on the back end of it, it was super complicated it get it out since there was only 16” between joist so my shoulders would not fit in-between. when we went to get it out it turned on its side and pinned my hand between it and the joist at my back. i freaked out at first but clamed down and got cody to turn it so i could get my hand out. it hurt. after we got the replacement cut and ready we proceeded to put it in well today was obviously not my day because i tripped walking backwards and fell in a puddle dropped the i-joist on my leg and made cody fall on tall lauren. i was ready to quit and go home, but alas we got it up and in. we then went to finishing up the blocking and getting all the joist nailed in a ready to be plywooded.

before robert left for class he explained to cody and i about the counterslope that was going to be on the roof. he informed us that it is on the master carpenter exam so we were a little intimidated. we got the 2 lines snapped for the front to back slope and the other 2 lines snapped for the edge slope. we started to cut some of the 2x4’s that were going to be used but decided that adrian should probably rip them because there was about an inch to hold and we could not figure out the best was to do it.