Tuesday, April 29, 2008

starting to get them to stand up...

As the day went on, we started getting past the 45 degree mark, and things started to seem to 'fall into place' - no pun intended. We were still working hard, but we were able to take breaks for photos of people under the frame:


There is no way we could have done this without Art. He continues to be a huge help on really important days.





We finally got it vertical, and after playing around with the posts and getting things lined up, we were feeling pretty good:







and then we went to work putting in the temporary bracing by screwing the ends into the posts and the bottoms into driven stakes. Charlie the supervisor dog did a good job too.

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