BCI's are up!

We earned our wages today....phew! It was hot out and everything seemed 20 lbs. heavier. We finished sheathing the perimeter, nailed in the remaining studs and cut, set and nailed down the floor joists. It's so exciting to walk around the crawl space (although at 5 ft. to the bottom of the BCIs it's practically a basement!) and think about all that storage space! We hauled up a sheet of OSB flooring so that we could stand on it and admire the view. It seems so high up in the air, but once it's backfilled four feet up, it will sit nicely in the woods and be level with the road, as it should. Dad had to leave a little early to set up to play with his band tonight and while I was nailing in the crush blocks a neighbor passed by to warn me of a little black bear that was making the rounds in the woods behind our house. I'm sure she was staying far away from my noisy nail gun, not to mention the radio and the generator running loudly. I did think of her as I was applying "black death" (an incredibly messy tar calking) to the seams of the sheathing and noticed that the wild blueberry bushes just off our soon-to-be-dining-nook are thriving. We'll have to act quickly once they're ripe to beat out the bear as well as the many neighborhood kids who are certainly aware of their presence.