Remember that rain from yesterday? Know North Carolina's neckname? Answer - the "tarheel state". (It should be the red tarhell state.) The mud from all that rain was not to be believed around the job site. It's slick as in slippery! It clings to your shoes, boots, pants, anything it touches (Yuck! It's why I'm once again over at Marge's doing laundry!) Janet had her own way of cleaning off the mud - memories of her childhood I guess. I thought at first the man on the porch had another way of dealing with the mud, but he only turned out to be one of the plaster contractors.

Rosemary (from Conn.) & Amy (from here in Lenoir) still managed to put out enough food & coffee to keep us happy over break & mud free enough that the lady from the Lutheran Church could set up lunch for us. We were all happy to have VEGETABLE soup for lunch. Tonight, one of the Baptist churches fed us dinner - a salad, lasagne, baked potato, buttered bread, pumpkin dessert & sweet tea (in case you were wondering about the weight gain). If they don't stop feeding us so much, we're going to need TWO pant sizes bigger before we leave.



In spite of the mud, our crew did manage to finish the flooring on one deck and build another one; start the vinyl siding on another side of the house we'd put the roof on; put the subfloor on the newest house going up & start construction on the sidewalls. We're all hoping to get the sidewalls up tomorrow and, to be honest, sort of "dreading" the "really good country lunch" we're to go to tomorrow at another Baptist Church. They're saying it will be our best lunch yet (we all asked if they also provided beds so we could take a nap afterwards). And in case you're worried that they're not going to feed us enough tomorrow, someone is taking us all to dinner at a local Italian restaurant. Don't be surprised if I'm not able to left a finger to enter a blog at the end of tomorrow.