After travelling for several weeks in a row for work, some more bad weather and both of us coming down with a real bad flu, we finally started to make some progress on the Art Shack.

We got the rest of the OSB up on the walls.

That helped stiffen the structure a lot.  Then we got all of the OSB covered with Tyvek.

My taping job on the Tyvek is not the best.  Actually, it looks like it was done by a mentally retarded 3 year-old.  But, it is good enough to keep the weather out.  With spring well underway in the desert, the sun and rain was starting to play hell with the first few sheets of OSB we had put up.  So at least the Tyvek will provide a modicum of protection from the weather.

The photos posted here were actually taken a week ago.  I did not write the blog entry at the time because I was down hard with the flu and had all I could do to get up and go to work each day.  While I was on the road, Tina got the porch stained.  It came out really nice.  I will post photos of that in my next installment.

Next week I have scheduled a week off from work and hopefully the weather will cooperate enough that I can get the ladders built for the roof gables and get the roof decking on.  The roof trusses were pretty straight when we set them, but the recent sun and rain has warped a few of them pretty badly.  So I am going to have to take a day and straighten the rafters before I can put the roof decking up.  Unfortunately, that is just part of the bargain when you cannot spend many days in a row working on a project to protect it from the weather.  But once I get the roof decking on and get it protected from the weather, we should be in pretty good shape.