what we've all been waiting for...a nice day, if a tad warm, good company and a buttload of work. what can I say? i'd like to say that it all went off without a hitch but i never was good at lying. we did get it all worked out eventually - actually, we're still getting it worked out but i'm getting ahead of myself.
brothers dave and andy were here as well as our friend chris. all that dog and baby-sitting paid off. i have to mention that all 3 of them are taller and stronger than ed and i are so their help was doubly appreciated. later in the day, nieces, sister-in-law, chris' wife and their little boy were here. that crew also helped.
getting the first riser wall up was a snap - until we realized how out of square our foundation is. we had to move walls, tweak them, mess with angles - in short, there was a lot of ummm... challenge that day.but we got them all up and tied together with some bracing. then it was time to put pentagons on the risers. yes, it takes 5 people to put a pentagon up,
although it looks like i'm not doing anything, doesn't it? by this time... whew. i was wishing i was the type that wants to go to the beach for vacation, not build something.that's dave on the scaffolding, ed at the left, chris, andy and me. it's mostly dave's stuff - tools and equipment - that we're using. scaffolding, mega-sized drill, air nail gun, grinders, etc. he's got a lot of nifty toys. he calls our framing hammer a girly hammer and brings his own. but then, he could probably use a 10" sledge hammer to drive nails - he's got popeye arms.
the last pentagon up - we lost one helper by this time, gained a few more. sheela (chris' wife) and tessa (my oldest niece) are helping to stabilize that last pentagon. angela (my youngest niece) was our photographer and carolina (my sister-in-law) did kitchen duty. no small task for the hungry crowd. 
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