second floor framing begins

Yesterday, the guys started putting in the floor joists for the second floor. I'm learning all their nicknames for each other. Very cute.


The previous day, they'd tinkered with the first floor decking to prep where the trap door is going to be.

This is where the stairway goes up, so no joists here. There are four trees over here that need to come down - that may happen as early as Monday. Sadly, one of them is a yellow birch (my personal fave).



This corner might not be done yet - the stairwell is on this side, but I think this particular spot is where the (hooray!) walk-in closet is going to be. So it will need a floor, as your better sorts of closets do tend to have floors. In my experience, anyway.