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Weather has been good. There was a good amount of snow, but I was pulling wire and nailing boxes rather than work on the outside. In the snow. And cold.

Actually, the siding is kinda fun....

I did the fascias starting along the fence side and working my way around back, that way I could "figure it out" by the time I got to the front where it mattered. All the sides went reasonably well, except the front. Which sucked. Not sure if I will pull the front off and do it again, or just...

Soffits all done. I am 1' shy of enough fascia holder-up-inators, and then ran out of daylight today. Hopefully Fascias this week.

Soffits half done at this point. Fascias next.

Passed the framing inspection! Yay! Workshop heater installed. All wire pulled. Also three network drops and a phone line. Gotta pull coax for cable still, and BX for the heater. Allegedly I can complete the exterior and call it done with an inspection for occupancy since insulation is not...

Styx, I like your style!

I plan to match the appearance to that of the house. Except the house has stucco, AND horizontal aluminum siding, AND vertical tongue-and-groove wood siding. Hard to make that look visually consistent. I may just do horizontal vinyl siding, for simplicity.

Well, ~that~ took a while. Now waiting on the gas guys while I pull wire.

VERY exciting to be inside, dry, while a torrential downpour put my shingling handiwork to the test. Spoke with the Electrical guy today to figure out what we need for a plan and materials. Brought home the Man Door today.

Inspector gave me the go-ahead to install doors. I will be running some 1/2" plywood up the wall and some along the trusses for the door to be attached to, and get a door in there. Mean time, pops and I got some Tyvek house wrap up.

So I'm getting close to the framing inspection. For the framing inspection, they want to see rough-in of doors and windows, rough-in of gas, and rough-in of electrical (no sewer in this build). Gas guy doesn't want to rough-in the furnace and gas if there are no doors. I don't want to...

Shingles are done. Took me 20 hours.

Today I finished sheathing the entire roof, and got half the front slope shingled. I'm in the Okanagan Valley. Much like California in many ways. PG eh? The north still calls me - I spent half my childhood even farther north than PG. Very beautiful country.

Still trying to beat Old Man Winter and get shingles on ASAP. Got a fair bit of sheathing done on the back side, hope to finish sheathing the front tomorrow. Hoping....

Hoisting trusses:

Trusses are up. Have to finish the overhangs and finish sheathing.

Got the trusses up above the machine shop area. Last doubled truss is a girder truss, which supports the end of the scissor trusses.

Trusses arrived, so the overhead-door lintel was put in place. This actually took a lot longer than expected, so no roof trusses got done.

I can give the bill to the excavators, but I bet that $$$ will find its way padded into different areas of the bill. That's how these things work (grin).