East end...time for the gable......

Brackets started to fly on the east side.....


After finishing the west side...this side went very fast.........


Each bracket is attached with lag screws from the back side after a couple of 2x10's were nailed in to support the brackets...


It only took about 30 minutes to set each one....


Anyone want a cup of coffee......instead of having bottled water for the guys, we have switched over to coffee.....which takes bottled water....hummmmmm


Working and walking around on the roof takes some getting used to.....one thing to remember here.....in order to take this picture of Joel and Tino, I had to climb all the way up there.....WHAT WAS I THINKING.......ROTFL.


Just as soon as the brackets were set......up came the fly rafters for the east side of the house.......cold, windy and overcast...it doesn't matter.....JUST GETER DONE!!


By the end of the day, the entire rafter system was finished.......what a day....


Kids say the darndest things......was a show hosted by Art Linkletter and later by Bill Cosby......but on Sunday Drake took the cake......we go to a bapist church and it's a straight laced quiet group of holy rollers.....for sure. Gatlinburg has about 11 million tourist a year and from time to time one will drift into church Sunday morning for the service. This Sunday, a family from Alabama were sitting two rows in front of us and they must have come from one of those.....yelling type of churches and said Amen...Amen Brother......a whole bunch of times during the service.
the pastor was telling a story about a farmer and a mule and when he came to the punch line.....the fellow from Alabama said....."Amen Brother" and Drake yelled out....."OH YEA"......and you guessed it....the pastor looked at Drake and said....."Thanks for bailing me out on that one Drake".....everyone was laughing....it was a classic....