Above you can see we've got the ridge and four of the main hips set. But we're hardly ready for rafters. This is one complicated roof line. There are ridges coming off hips, hips that turn into valleys, hips that die into the roof line and then become valleys — it was definitely a day or two of head scratching and calculations. Plus I don't think there were more than five rafters in the whole house that were the same. We had rafters going from walls to hips, ridges to valleys, ridges to hips, hips to valleys, multiple bird's mouths where they crossed over walls. We started cutting the first hips March 10 and finished putting plywood on the roof April 3, which for this roof ain't too shabby Below is a shot looking back from the west about the same time.

Above we're heavily into rafters and from inside you get these wonderful geometric patters of windows, skylights and rafters with the sky beyond. It helps when it's a nice day.

Once the plywood is on, we go back inside and do all the blocking and interior walls we blew past in our rush to get a roof over our heads.

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