Notwithstanding all my efforts to reach the peak last year, it took until the first of the new year to get to the points at the gable ends of the house.
(That's the moon at the top of this pic, not a smudge)
We had an open house (apt title, we thought, for our topless house) on Jan 1 and enjoyed visits from a number of our local friends. The weather and the endless mud and wet has been a bit demoralizing, so it was a great boost for us to get so much positive reinforcement. It rained the whole time.... thus no inclination to take pictures, but yesterday was nice weather so we snapped quite a few.
By that day we had poured concrete (term of art for this is "grout") into the second floor walls up to the point where the gables start. So, as you can see in this pic, the walls up to the level just above the windows are solid now -- thus I am able to stand on them as here: 
Upon reflection, my original plan of pouring the whole second floow at once seemed too risky -- too high to go and too difficult to pour the tall gables end walls full from the sloped tops.
It is really quite high. (14' 4" to be exact) It took stacking our scaffolding one atop the other to do the work at the end.
The climb may not seem so bad -- in fact it can even be fun-- but remember that every block you see in these pictures was carried up the stairs and then up onto a scaffold (or two) before it could be placed in its spot.
Doesn't she just cry out for some roof? 
I hope not to spend a lot of time admiring the view from the peak of the gable on the east, but it was worth documenting:
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