Four people, two hours, one stud

"Four people, two hours, one stud." - But things went much faster after that!  At the end of an afternoon of work where we had planned to put up our first new wall, we had one stud in and darkness encouraging us to call it a day.  That's when Dad came up with the previous quote...

Only a third of the family that was supposed to come out for Christmas actually squeaked through a window in the winter weather, so Mom and Dad were our skeleton crew for the house last week.  We were sad to be missing the rest of the fam, but those of us here had fun and actually got a lot of work done.

 With the air too cold to pour foundation, we're working inside while we wait for a warm-up.  We cleared out all the remaining trash - old electrical, a built-in cabinet we hoped to save but couldn't, LOTS of nails in the studs we're reusing, etc.  And then we started in on new walls.  Very exciting!  We built my closet and the wall dividing the master bath from the kid's bath.  (No kids yet; the state frowns on placing kids in houses with no walls and lots of nails on the floor...)  After lots of work on floor plans, it was a thrill to walk around and see the plans coming to life in the new walls.

And now Mom and Dad are back home, the weather is warming up, and we're hoping to pour foundation very soon.  Then we'll really be building some walls - hopefully at a better rate than one stud every two hours :)