Sunday, February 8, 2009

Blog 11 Week of Feb. 2nd



Here I am stapling up insulation under the house


Blog 11 – First week of February

Construction of the new house is finally underway. Most of the ladies went straight to work at the house. Carol and I, who are not “into” doing the actual construction work (we’ll be there when it’s time to mud and paint) had a side job to work on. A couple of the men had gone and fixed Mr. Edwin’s bathroom and it now required painting, which job was assigned to Carol and I. We got the prime coat painted and then had intended to go back in the afternoon and paint the final coat and put some of his belongings back into his office room; however, he said he had to go out and we should call him later if we wanted to come back. “Later” never happened, as when we got back to the home-building site, which is in the same community, we learned that our Project Director, Warren, (Carol’s husband) had to be taken to Minor Emergency with a finger injury which would require stitches. So then Carol and I went over to the clinic to see how bad it was. She waited there until Warren was finished, and I went on my merry way to Walmart and the Dollar Store to pick up some things I needed. He didn’t exactly lose the top of his finger, but it required some inventive stitching on the part of the doctor. Ironically, he had to meet the building supply truck at the site at 7:30 a.m. and had not been at devotions that morning when we prayed for safety on the job site. . .

By the end of the first day, the back 43 foot wall was up and nailed in place!

It turned out to be a lovely sunny day. Apparently the Newton group has had lots of rain and some hail, so their building project has been slowed down. Here, we are dry as a tinderbox and are reluctant to pray for rain because the last significant rain was 19 inches in 3 hours!!! Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “It never rains but it pours”.

Tuesday, Feb. 3, was the one year anniversary of our friend/neighbour, Vimy’s passing. It was very interesting to see a gentleman at church last Sunday whose profile very much resembled Vimy!

Our friends, Len and Nettie, from Manitoba, will be on their way here tomorrow morning. We are very thankful to learn that their daughter-in-law’s back surgery in Germany was successful. Hopefully they will have a good trip and we look forward to seeing them and working and playing with them again. Their motorhome is parked behind us awaiting their arrival.

Today on the radio, there were murmurings about what’s happening in Washington that indicate “the honeymoon is over”. The newscaster was hoping President Obama can stand up to the people he has put into high positions in his Government to keep on the course that he promised Americans for economic recovery, rather than cave to their special interests.

On Tuesday, Carol and I went back to finish painting at Mr. Fortner’s. He wasn’t ready for us to put the boxes back in his office yet, as he says he has to go through them and discard what isn’t needed any more. Good news!

The rest of the ladies worked at the site and by the end of the day, they had the floor sheeted and screwed down while the men were building walls.

Wednesday, the ladies didn’t go to work, but we went just before noon to see the next walls go up. They had quite an “audience” for the raising. This was the day that the Granite Shoals Methodist Church sends a bag lunch for all of our group, so Alex arrived with lunch. Denise, the other Local Recovery Committee worker, also showed up but not in time to see the walls raised. . .

Thursday I went to work with three of the other girls and we started insulating under the floor. All of the walls are up and the men are working on the interior walls. The trusses are scheduled to arrive next Monday. Not bad for a four day work week!

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