I began the day by peeling back the roof tarp on the west end of the JayBee so I could continue the rafter work. After last night's down...

Today was very summer-like--bright, hot, humid. I was in shorts and a t-shirt, and too hot at that. No rain, though; great day for working o...

Even after the rain stopped this morning, the day remained very dark and very humid. I spent the morning in the JayBee, reading roofing ch...

Good news: With all the pouring rain we have had this week, not a drop ended up inside my JayBee. No leaves got inside either. ::: dancin...

I've had a few conversations with people recently who are new to checking out my project. As usually happens, they were a bit puzzled ab...

When I first began planning this project in earnest--back in January--my thought was that I would build the JayBee and move into it before w...

I felt a bit funky today, so it was nice that I could move at slow speed. I fastened the west-end sheathing that overlaps the north and sout...