We completed framing the floor and laying on the 3/4" thk plywood subfloor by the end of week five and we started using the precut parts supplied by Timberwork at the beginning of week six. The first items to be erected were the column assemblies each consisting of a notched and drilled 4x8 member about 10 ft. high, sandwiched between ripped 4x4 pieces that formed the 15 degree angle of the adjacent walls. Michael is shown putting the first column in place. 
     After a small correction cut at the base, all 12 columns fit nicely over the steel fin of the anchor bracket and after plumbing, were held in place by two half inch bolts. Next the lower and upper sill plates, the members that spanned between the columns, defining the wall elements. They also fit beautifully. The RCH construction company was living up to its name (an inside joke). Then the solid portions of the walls were in-filled with 2x4 stud framing. That included the knee walls under each of the six windows and the five full walls. The wall for the two doorways was left open.

     This framing took about two days. We were now ready to erect the rafters. We marked the center of the pavilion through intersecting the lines from column center to column center. We rented three 5 ft high scaffolding stages, assembled them in the middle of the room. Using the 15 ft. 4-5/8 inch height dimension shown in the section drawing we placed the 12" dia. heavy wall steel pipe on planks at that height, with a plumb bob hanging from its center down to the center mark on the floor. We then began hoisting the 4x8X15 ft. long rafters up, always working on opposites to keep the forces on the pipe balanced. Barak and I, working from below, lifted and fitted the column end into its column notch, and slid a 1" dia. threaded rod through the column and rafter pre-drilled holes, bringing it tight with two nuts and washers, while Babu and Michael on the scaffolds made the bolted connection through the predrilled rafter into the pre-drilled wall of the steel pipe using two 1/2" bolts. After all 12 major rafters were in place, we added the 2x8 jack rafters. These sandwiched the main rafter about two thirds of the way to the center, where two 1/2" bolts slipped through matching pre-drilled holes, sandwiched the column, where again two 1/2" bolts slipped through pre-drilled holes, and sat on an angle cut rafter seat on the two sill plates on either side of the column. Everything was fitting nicely and by end of week six we had much of the pavilion's roof structure up.

    Early in week seven we assembled the window framing parts that divided up each of the six window walls into two 3 ft wide by 6 ft. high framed openings to take the cedar louvered windows, three separate operators for each 6 ft. high window. We then added precut ring pieces that defined the transition between the lower pitched shingled roof panel, cedar boarded from the inside, and the central glass skylight at the higher pitch. These ring members also support the intermediate rafter added this week. We are now working at framing the connection to the dome home. More as the project continues.

The last of the pavilion framing involved the intermediate rafter shown in the photo to the left.
 

At that point, with all the rafters in place, we threw a blessing party.  Saya's mother had sent us a Japanese Good-luck doll to be nailed to the entry so we asked Saya to bless the project in Japanese. We also asked Vince Alexander, our New Thought friend who has recently opened a law office in town, to give a New Thought blessing and, of course, Barry and Gloria Blum, the erzats Rabbi of Kona Beth Shalom, would do a Jewish Blessing..... and then we told everybody to come! We had food, drink, music, 60 friends and all the blessings you can ask for.