Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Days 2 & 3...


Day 2 - New Year's Day was a holiday - a rainy holiday. John occupied part of his day trying to figure out where that pesky leak was coming from in the back of Rambo. It's on HIS side of the bed so I went and played games with the others. Frackle, Mexican Train Domino's, Pegs and Jokers... games we had never heard of but turned out to be fun (and lest you think that John spent the entire day staring at the back of Rambo, he did come over and try his hand at some of the games - of course the forecast for sun may have had something to do with it).

Day 3 - the rest of the photos. It was a COLD (about 40 this a.m.) and WINDY day, but we were on our "slab" by 8:00. This affiliate is VERY well organized and the site supervisors are terrific so we all had jobs to do and got quite a bit accomplished. Because this house is in the middle of an already existing development with deed restrictions, it is being built with two porches and an attached garage (unusual for Habitat). The ladies in photo 4 are leveling the ground around the framework part of our group built to form the front porch. The "soil" is nothing but sand (in fact, I'm beginning to think Florida is nothing but an over sized sand bar...) The slab for the porch will be poured right on top of the sand. No need to be concerned about frost heaves here.

The morning was spent building the walls and right after lunch we raised them. The plan is to stucco the walls half way up (to discourage termites) and vinyl the rest of the way. Photo 5 - how many men does it take to hold up a wall?

Last photo was taken at 2:00 when we quit for the day. Not bad working hours!




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