Bye, bye tarps...hello porch!

So after a whole winter of the tongue and groove taking up residence in our shop, a whole winter of tip toeing around this trailer and not being able to open up the beer fridge all the way....finally the sun comes out and the tongue and groove goes outside!

All winter long we had some pretty bad wind storms. Many days the tarps looked like this: (Notice you can see through part of the tarp there...not good)



And many mornings before work we had to push out water bubbles that had formed in between the porch header logs. Note that when I say "bubbles" I really mean "lakes". No joke. Sometimes there was so much water stuck in the tarps you couldn't push it out and you had to let it siphon for hours before the bubble was small enough to push the rest of the water out. Good riddance tarps. I never want to see you again.



The weather was still kind of iffy through the first part of June, so we did leave the smaller tarps on. These ones were hidden underneath the 100' X 100'. You can see the tongue and groove going on the porch here.

And here the front side of the porch is completely decked in tongue and groove.

The view from below:

And at the end of the front side, waiting to work around the north side of the house.