Friday afaternoon Aug. 29th

Roof raising!!! Interior wood beams and loft.

Roof decking went up today, and the rains are TRYING to set in.

Thursday, Aug. 28th

The rafters all got put up by Thursday late afternoon!! Again- its amazing how fast they work!! Seeing the house from the road tonight was an amazing sight!!

Another Texas sized sunset!!

Sunrise

We finally woke up in time to see the sun rise this morning before the kids went to school. This is looking out the loft window, which is where Dan and I will have coffee every morning!! Amazing!!

Rafters Away!

All of the rafters on the west side were done by noon today!! Should have the tongue and groove done late this afternoon.

Its a balancing act!!

This is the cross beam that went up first thing Thursday morning. The rafters will attach to it. It was scarry to watch them walk along the 2x4's for fear that they would fall!!

Rafters Away!!!

This is the loft, which sits right above the dining room and kitchen. We are going to keep it as a wood floor--- no carpet.

More walls

East and north exterior walls all up by lunch time, along with upstairs closet and bathroom framed in!!

Up, up and away!!

Here's the first wall that went up this morning.

Second story

Looking down to the living room and corner fireplace from the loft.

Another amazing sunset- looking out the front door.

Wonderful log home!!

Kitchen and diningroom beams.

This is what the screws look like that they use to put the logs together.

Logs, logs and more logs!

This is what the cabin looked like before we left on a short trip on Aug. 21st.

This is what it looked like when we got home on Aug. 24th!! Wow!! The whole 1st floor was framed in!!!

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY!!

Nothing has been done on the cabin since Friday, as the weather has done nothing but RAIN!!! Over the past week we've gotten 6 inches. Had we known it was going to rain like this we would've built an ark!!

Jones Family Log Home

Welcome to our log cabin adventure!! We hope you will enjoy seeing our blog cabin as it is being built. It has definitely been an adventure so far, and we are just beginning!!

Here we are standing on our future front porch overlooking the front 7 1/2 acres. You ask why we like the Texas flat land? Look at the next picture and you'll know why.

Now this is a Texas sunset!!

This is our barn/ garage that is housing all of our belongings while we are waiting for the cabin to be built. We also moved out the red sheep barn from our old house. That was an adventure in itself!!

Step 1: the basement-- this is where Abbey and Autry's room will be. They poured concrete between 2 styrofoam walls. The concrete for the ceiling will also be poured on top of styrofoam with rebar. AMAZING!!

Log delivery day!! Of all days for it to rain!! We ended up having to unload the semi from the highway because our driveway was too muddy with the inch of rain that we got just hours before the truck showed up.

Ron and David spent the morning moving logs one skid at a time down the drive.

The world's strongest redneck!!

End of day 2- looking at the front of the house

Day 2: south side of cabin ( livingroom and dining room) that overlooks playa lake. You'd think that with all the rain we've had there would be some water in it!!