Scott had to go out to Vermillion for work, and on the way, he stopped at the river house and built a step on the porch.

Scott worked at the river continuing the siding until the snow started coming down. He got the bottom part done.

Two days ago, Scott went to the river. The day began cold, warmed up and rained, turned cold again, and snowed with accumulation! But he stayed all day and finished the roof sheathing. He put down ice guard and prepped it for the metal roofing.

The next day it snowed 3 inches in the morning, so he stayed home and did other things. Today, he went out and started the siding on the front of the house. PS no new snow but super cold.

Another cold day. Scott nearly finished the framing for the roof. He's ready to start the sheathing.

A very cold day. Scott made progress on the porch roof and still had energy to enjoy the sunset.

Another cold day. Scott spent it finishing the floor of the porch (ripping and setting that one last floor board and doing the facing boards) and taking apart the front of the house where the roof of the porch will attach.

Another very cold day Scott spend outside working on the porch. He finished the floor (save the very last board; it had to be ripped and there wasn't enough light to see clearly.)

He took more pictures of the eagles, which he said are numerous and very active and noisy.

I think the temperature was 28 degrees. Scott worked outside all day, and he got half the floor installed.

​It took longer than usual because originally he thought he was going to use Trex, which need to be inset behind the lower facing board because they're ugly on the ends when you cut them. In the end, he decided to use wood, but the facing board was already in, so he had to cut the floor boards carefully and fit them in, rather than simply nailing them on top of the joists and then running his saw across to cut them evenly.

He said he saw bald eagles all day long. And the sun sets over the river in the winter giving him a nice view. But yikes that's ice in the river.

Day 3 of porch work was Scott putting in the joists.

We had more snow come down, and it's pretty cold, but Scott spent the whole day outside doing some more work on the porch. 

He decided not to anchor the back end to the house but instead add more posts to that side and build on top of those. But he discovered an old concrete sidewalk under the dirt that he had to bust out with a sledgehammer first.

When he did that, he dug holes and put in the back posts. Then he put on those 2x8 planks, whatever they're called.