The west half of the basement, showing the black plastic covering the foam board insulation and hay bunched up along the perimeter.

The east half of the basement. Some of the water that accumulated from the evening before has frozen, which helped keep the plastic down.

Paul measures the distance to the center of each rebar pin, and the offset of each pin from the outside of the wall and Jeff records them on a piece of pressure-treated 2x8x10 lumber.

Then they mark off those measurements on the board and drill holes which will match up to the rebar pins.

Drilling the holes for the rebar pins. The pins are spaced about 2 feet apart and run down the center of the wall. These will be the "anchor bolts" for the first course of logs.

Paul lines up one rebar pin at a time and feeds them through the drilled holes in the sill board.

Lining up the last rebar pin in this sill board.

Paul steps on the sill board to get it to sit tight on the top of the wall.