Framed!

Wednesday, two days after the concrete-pour, the framing begins. Robert works on the back where the door will go…

… while Vidal works on a side wall:

Soon, most of the vertical bits are in place:

Now there’s house where once there was none, and an unruly camelia has started to trip passers-by. (You can see it at the lower-right corner of the picture above.) EP, who has been gardening for a living, generously offers to trim it back a little.

By Thursday the framing is finished:

On Friday the sheer-walling is done:

I get my first real sense of what the room will be like: how much light and how much area.

Now, for the first time in its 35-year life, the addition is stable. For eight years I’ve worried about the thing collapsing; now I can stop. What am I gonna worry about now? I guess about paying for all this.