Framing with Dad Potter

I first felt inspired to start blogging while I have been building a storage shed with my father-in-law. I wanted to show our labors to others, and realized with my camera phone that I could document it and post it in a blog. So, I'll be including photos of the shed and some of my experiences.
Here is the shed when I first began documenting it. I actually started helping Dad (the inherited one) by finishing the foundation created by 4x4 boards. Once we got the flooring down, we used it as a large work bench to build the trusses. Then we stacked those out of the way, and started building the walls. This is all four walls up, about two weeks into the project. Yep, two weeks and this is all the building we have. However, I've learned that the building rapidly takes shape after you get the walls up.

Here we have gotten some OSB hung on the walls. The wind was kicking upwards of 30 mph and we didn't want our building to get knocked down. So rather than put up just the north wall(the broad side in the foreground) and have the wind turn it into a kite for us, we used the OSB to buttress each wall as we went. It worked out pretty well. The building is still standing. :)

And here is a view of the east wall after we've gotten the trusses up. What a major pain! Two guys on ladders with one nail gun and unwieldy trusses fighting us the entire way to their final resting place. Despite the awkwardness of the journey, we succeeded. Here we are building out the overhang. When it's done, it actually does hold our weight. It's hard to believe, isn't it?