I have a bunch of wood like this in the picture. Its from the section of wall we took down before in hopes of re-using it. When we started to put the frame together, we found the size wasn't right. Yeah, instead of 8', all these pieces are 7.5'... Useless to me for the wall, which means I have to go buy more now. The one upside is that I can use these wood for the cat walk behind the wall so people can watch the game. Bad news is this is more money I have to spend that I don't have.
Here is the wall after working on it yesterday. We managed to get 2 more section up. Its turning out really nice and straight.


The wall from another angle.

This is the first time in three weeks we have actually worked on the wall. And I got to say, it's really cold in there. Anyone want to install a chimney for the wood burner we have sitting there taunting us?