Day 2

New song - To the tune of “Hot Blooded” with a PA Dutch accent : “Hot and sveaty check it and see, I’ve been working in Mississippi”

Sorry it's been a few days, we've been runnin' hard and I finally got some downtime on Day 4 to catch up.

Job Site 1: Done? This site was a nightmare. Hot, buggy - black flies, fireants, and mosquitoes. No shade. Ugh. We got all the poles moved so we shouldn't have to go back.

Job Site 2: The site 1 team moved over to help with site 2. We got some of the lumber needed, and had to play with the depth of the holes, only to find out that we had gotten some incorrect information from our local contact regarding how deep they should be. After a couple of hours of unnecessary digging, we got back on track and got all of the holes leveled out and about 2/3's of the posts set and braced. We're still waiting on joists, decking lumber and concrete, but the roof trusses showed up.

Margie (the owner of the soon-to-be house) spent the night just staring at the set posts. She told us that she was so excited about it that she couldn't sleep and at the same time was so worried that someone would come along and try and destroy our work. She's a great lady - she's given us shade, drinks, and food while we work. She's got a great daughter and a son, but we haven't met her husband yet because he has to drive almost 2 hours each way for work. Their house is going to be finished by a crew that's coming in from California, who are not only finishing what we've prepared for them, but they are furnishing the house completely and giving the daughter $4000 towards college because she's graduating high school early. She's 16 and graduates this year!

Job Site 3: Jack's house is coming along swimmingly. Felt paper was up and stapled and a good bit of the siding was put on. By the end of the day, the trusses had been delivered and the guys got them loaded up onto the top of the framing. This crew is just flying through the job.

Jack's a cool guy. He blares some Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson doing old hymns to keep the guys rolling throughout the day.

Onto the local news: we went to this awesome little restaurant for dinner here in Waveland. It's called Da' Kitchen. We had some of the best food we've ever tasted - nothing anyone got was bad. Good times. The walls were painted with a tropical themed mural with lighthouses, palm trees, parrots, etc... which they told us an artist from florida painted in just 2 days. We're talking like 560 square feet of wall covered with this mural in just 2 days.

Tried out the local Sonic later that night - just like home!