Toby was hard at work while I was away this past week. Here’s the engineering feat he has been constructing:

here you can see the beginning of the joists that will hold up the second floor.

this is the view from the inside! The flooring will go on top of these joists, so the will be an exposed part of our first floor ceiling. Does that make sense?

this is looking down on the girders from the second floor, right above the main post.