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It has been a few weeks since I last visited our construction site. Between the Christmas/New Year's holiday slowdown and a little baby distraction (my builder is a new "again" dad!), things have just been plodding along. Today was a fabulous day to visit. With 50 degree weather and a sunny blue sky, the guys were busy working on manual truss work (where manufactured trusses wouldn't work) on the back of the house (where it's sunny). The posts and horizontal "gluelam" beams for the porch roof have arrived so the crew is trying to finish the roofing while we have this great weather. I spotted some of the posts in the garage. These should be really nice when they're all stained. This made me laugh. There were three buckets on the patio catching drips from the...from the...I'm not sure why they were catching the water from the trusses...other than to keep the patio from getting muddy? The covered porch is starting to take shape. The back patio...