The idea to attach screen throughout the middle of the poly ethelyne plastic seemed the most economical and easiest fix to our delimma. + it added much needed ventilation! However, this posed another problem; how to protect the top from rainfall.

After sheeting is spliced to screen and installed.

Picture from outside-backdoor.

Indoor shelf for storage and workspace.

No more nights spent in the wagon, moving day is here!

Tarpoline cover errected above our dwelling to keep the rain out. As you can see, there is much clean up to be done.

It has pretty much done nothing but rain lately. Dana and I have been working 30 hours this week, so this combined with bad weather has limited our time working on the property.

We manged to cover our dwelling with a tarpaulin after caulking and painting it. However, strong winds blew water inside and washed out some of the caulk that hadn't fully dried. This was minimal damage comparatively.

Another set back to our building plans: when we went to put the plastic sheeting on, it came out to 20' wide instead of 24' wide. This did not allow enough play on the ends to secure the plastic. Again another blunder on my part. The box, said 20' x 100', when all this time I thought I had bought 24' x 100' plastic.

Discouraged, I set to thinking about how to fix this problem; mostly trying to ignore what looked like a dire situation. We prayed, and petitioned the Lord for help.

Perhaps this new idea to screen the top section is the Lord's direction.

Stay tuned...

As you can see, we have got up the OSB walls. You would think by just looking at it that it's only a matter of putting on the plastic. However, there is a lot of little modifications and touch ups left to do. For instance I have to put in some diagonal supports, cauk and seal cracks, cauk and seal edges of OSB, paint exposed surfaces, and secure the PVC to the wood framing. But we are very close!

Among other critters, we have some of the largest spiders I have ever seen. You can see the egg sack being carried under its behind.