Day 4

Day 4 is over. We had dinner tonight with the pastor of the California church who is taking over for us after tomorrow, along with the local family who we're all building the house for.

Job Site 1: Still done - thank you, God!

Job Site 2: Still working. Brad and Kevin along with the concrete guy poured almost all of the footers. It would have been all had we ordered what we originally thought we needed (7.5-8 yards). Instead, we only got 7 yards and came up a few holes short.

Besides that, the project is moving along smoothly. We'll be doing the framing for the floor tomorrow, hopefully getting all of the joists hung and the decking in place for the next team.

Job Site 3: Done! Howie, Brad, Pete, and Dan knocked out the shingles this morning in about two hours. Pretty good for a 1500 square foot house roof! Once that was finished, Howie, Pete, Kevin, Brad, and Dan finished up the truss bracing, siding, and cleanup. The house is now ready for electrical and plumbing, and once that's in - drywall. Jack will soon have a house again. If the windows had been on hand, we'd have put them in.

I almost forgot to mention that Jack, the soon-to-be resident, along with his father and brother went out and caught about 45 pounds of shrimp which we gladly helped them eat. Jack stewed them up with corn on the cob and potatoes. Yummy!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch... the girls broke out a major whoopin' on the cleaning of the facility. They scrubbed this place, and believe me - it needed it. We've left them with some extra cleaning tools and supplies they didn't have before. Tom also got the A/C in the kitchen wired up, as well as the washer/dryer connections. We also installed real latch hardware on all of the stall doors, as opposed to the thin wire hooks they were using to close the doors. We also left (thanks to Jade), the Nehemiah verse painted on the wall - Nehemiah 4:6.

Tomorrow, we'll hopefully get the decking and joists done. Once that's finished we'll be travelling to New Orleans one more time.

God Bless - we'll see you all at home sometime this weekend!