We are making progress on the exterior walls. Uncle Mark has been working with us on a regular basis, and he is a big help. We have the top plates on all but one short wall of the office. We have the shear wall in place on the 2 main shear walls on the south wall.

South wall shear walls with porthole

Porthole closeup with palm trees reflection.

South-West corner. Will the orange tree make it?

Can you see the chain wrapped around the top of the wall in the picture below? The wall was about 1/8 th of a bubble out of level, so we used a ‘come-along’ winch to bring it into level and then nailed in the top plates to the cross wall, tying everything together.

West wall with chain