House progress

Above: Pat gets ready to install the beam. Below: New stairs to the catwalk in the barn.

Above: Bill studies the directions before he starts putting the cistern together.

Below: The frame is finished and we're almost ready for the roof. Bill has spent hours collecting the stones in the foreground - digging them up out of the earth - to build a stone wall around the front part of the house. A neighbor commented on the size of our structure the other day, "It looks like you guys are building the Alamo down there."