Now it's official

It's not a real project unless you sustain some kind of physical damage along the way. Stan was driving 3-inch screws into a jack post with an impact driver today when the phillips head slipped and stabbed his left thumbnail. Blood was shed.
The original purpose of a thumbnail is to protect the thumb from these kinds of events, and it gave itself up admirably today. The broken nail will be replaced eventually, of course, and, fortunately, it is on the left hand.

Detail of header. Snug. Plumb.

It was bandaged, then wrapped with painter's tape, then inserted into a glove. Good enough to get the header finished (see background).
The project went well, thanks in good measure to Jennifer's Billy Einstein, the intelligent framer who taught Stan a trick or two this summer -- particularly how to make a crooked stud come into line.
This wall was filled with twisted and turned, ugly materials, but now the rough opening for the exterior door is plumb and square, almost Biblical -- as it says in Isaiah 40,  "the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain."
Billy would be proud of his pupil -- except for the phillips head screws. Billy uses square heads. Much safer.