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Today was putting in the beams and putting on the roof. Roof felt and shingles will be a finishing touch, so please don't think my birds only will have a raw wooden roof over their heads. The roof was a challenge because I had to take into account the tree limbs which provide the shade and accommodate for them...plus they were rather unyielding when getting up under them to put the structure in place.




Tomorrow begins the sheathing and siding, which is a good thing because in its raw framed state the coop vaguely resembles the Parthenon. Once the siding and windows are in it'll look like a whole 'nother building.

This is a view from the other end of the structure showing the roost loft. It will have a slide out drawer for the PDZ. Don't know why I tiled it as it'll be under the drawer, but I now have no leftover tiles.




I had a little dilemma about what style roof to put on. Ultimately, I'm glad I opted for this one because I can use the beams for hanging waterers and feeders.


The fun stuff today was the Balloon Fiesta's mass ascension, which got off to a late start due to high winds. And due to the weather they all opted to fly very low. Their path led them to Corrales and there were easily a 160 assorted balloons drifting lazily about at various altitudes. A couple landed in the neighborhood. All that floated by me out in the yard waved!
Today was Special Shapes Day and so there was a fire hydrant, Shrek, Mr. Bill, a shark, a chicken, a blue bird, a pink elephant, Yoda, an ice cream cone, and a few others. Really a cool and fun experience to have hot air balloons in every direction you looked. It was like being immersed in them.
 
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I've been missing our favorite cut-up for awhile. It seems like a day without him is more like a month. But, I think he mentioned going camping with family and kid(s)??? unless I am confusing him with someone else. Thought it was just supposed to be a 3 day thing. My mind is so far gone maybe I imagined the whole thing.

Today I was mad the mailman didn't bring the weekly grocery ads. Today is Wednesday which I didn't know. Turns out I got the ads yesterday when they are supposed to arrive and already forgot about it. Oh boy!! I don't want to move to a nursing home.
 
@Peep_Show just WOW!
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We need to hire you out as a builder!!! SO BEAUTIFUL!
 
Thanks. Truth be told, though, I think engineering is in the genes. Grandpa was a high-level civil engineer who designed the S.F. Bay Bridge and assorted tunnels into Yosemite...He almost was assigned Hoover Dam, but opted to reside in the S.F. Bay Area instead (I think Grandma in her way convinced him that she didn't want to raise 4 youngsters in Las Vegas with no air conditioning). And those genes filtered down... Uncle Bruce worked in Los Alamos on the bomb and later was a designer electrician for Westinghouse (creating the lights used in movie productions); Uncle Bob designed beautiful garden landscapes, my dad designed business forms (back before they were all templates on computers). And assorted cousins got the engineering affliction: One now works at Los Alamos in chemical engineering, one designs for Tesla, and I wake up doing geometry equations in my head. Can't explain it, really. But building stuff, I've found, is just a whole lot of math (angles) and a little bit of art...and maybe some attention to detail.
 

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