Today was a short day for the workers, but a hard one. They had to erect this huge beam to hold up the ceiling and roof. We went to town and missed the action, but I'm kind of glad we did. I don't think my nerves could have stood watching them. For this first picture I am standing in the kitchen looking south toward the living room window.

The beam is 25 feet long, 12 inches wide and there are two of the boards put together to make it 4 inches thick. The upright boards you see in the pictures are the temporary wall that will come down once they get a center support post in place under the beam.
