Not a Photogenic Day

Today was all about foundations for the next segments: spacers for the floors to rest on and build wall around on Houses 2 and 3, and more steps preparatory to assembling porches. 

The porch ceilings for Houses 2 and 3 moved along (though still need paint and railings) and the posts and railings for the first main porch are well underway. That means cutting two eens-weensy blue caps for each of the 9 or 10 columns, and gluing them top and bottom.  For the pilot house, I didn't assemble the columns completely first and later regretted it, so at least for House 1, I'm giving that a try.

After the columns are in place,  there's a header that sits longside exposed on top of the columns. That works better in large chunks glued together in advance, so that got done for all three houses today, too. The header is harder to bevel than square material: this is a place where it would have been more sensible to get square rather than accurate lumber. Still, the headers are all cut and glued, so after the columns are capped, this should start to go together and look like something.

Today and tomorrow may be the last days of progress for a few days, as we have company coming for a few days, leaving Wednesday morning.