Yet another Big Truck

Lopez Ready Mix (Bob) is getting good at backing their cement trucks down our driveway and around the corner to the house.

 Huck, thank you!!

As he was driving the truck away, Bob asked:  "What is that room anyway?"
We love that question!  The front entry is a response to our site and this (I've lived here long enough now to be annoyed by our 'temperate') climate.

It's a wind break.  There is an exterior door opening to the south and french doors opening to the inside of the house.
The new concrete floor will be thermal mass (for collecting heat and releasing it at night).
The skylights and the windows (all with clear glazing, not low-E, because this is "unheated space"!  ...brilliant...) will bring in heat, which we can move into the house by opening the inner french doors. 
And, not to be ignored, this is where Neal's citrus plants will live...he's a lemonhead...did you know?

And as a foil to all the trucks and cement, here's a shot of Uma in the orchard.  Note the shadows! Must be sun coming through the clouds.

Ms. LULL stops by

Mitrebox sent over the Lull to help out today

Tom squeaked her in past the studio

And held our second floor sheetrock outside our bedroom window.  Then Neal, Bruce, David and I brought it through the window and stacked it inside.  No, we're not ready for hanging sheetrock.  But we want to install the upstairs windows, and it would be a trick to bring all that rock up the stairway.

What a monster machine - and what a break for our backs!

August was for playing

But now he's back. Quick, get it dried in before the rain starts!

 First window, installed and trimmed out

 Uma's room, all three windows in, with reverse board and batten done on the first floor.