On a cloudy day, La Costena Airlines carries me from Managua to Bluefields on the Caribbean coast as I watch the beautiful patchwork quilt of Nicaragua unfold below us. Nicaragua is about the size of New York state and the plane is about half way to the east coast.
13 November 2011
The house (3)
After the foundation comes the framework for the first story and the 'floor' on which the second story will sit. Construction is different from what I'm used to. Each interior corner is a 4" x 4". There is a lot of diagonal bracing. Much of the framing is 21" on center rather than 16" on center.
