One day at a time...

We're making progress and have accomplished a lot but we are beginning to hit a wall. The quartet of Ed, Mark, Ron and Doug were at it again today and have made it around to the front of the house now.

We've developed a system and are motoring along. Thank goodness that we were able to work in the shade today. (Ed, I don't know what we would have done without your tent!) God heard our prayers for dry weather and has supplied us with 3 days without rain. It was, however, a HOT one today! Us old guys (sorry Mark, I'm generalizing!!) are taking a lot of breaks. The front of the house is shaded by a nice big tree but today was the first day that we've had to break out the pruning utensils and cut shrubbery away from the house so we could work. Mark kind of disappears in the plants in one of the photos; sort of looks like he's in the jungle.

Well, let's see who I can pick on today...

Ron has decided that we all need official titles and responsibilities. He assigned himself the first title: Safety Director. Now I'm not real sure what the job description is but he did a superb job today of taking the boards we removed, bending over nails that were protruding from them, and placing them in the trailer. That's a very important part of the job and keeps us from stepping on nails. As the saying goes, 'a clean work site is a safe work site'.

Hey Carol, what's for lunch? Turkey on slider buns, wheat or white, with raspberry mayonnaise; chips; veggie tray; lemon squares (killer!); drinks. Yuummm!

Today's work included some tedious work around a lot of wires... wires for the phones, wires for the cable/internet, and wires for electricity. We did pretty good. We managed to not electrocute ourselves. And there was cable/internet all day. The phones, however, were a different story. Our disconnection of the phone line wasn't readily apparent; if you don't call out, you don't know anything is wrong. That was us today until about 3:30 when Marie asked, "Do y'all know why the phones aren't working? Did you have to work around some wires?" As a matter of fact... ummm, we did. Considering that this crew is good at what they do, it was not a big deal to get communications back up and running, although, when Byron and I first looked at all those wires in that box, we weren't totally confident. "Do you have an inside wiring service contract with your provider?" we asked. But wait! I think if we connect these blue wires--- Eureka! (Are we good, or are we good.)

The Hardi Board siding and the rest of the materials get delivered tomorrow and then maybe we'll start getting the house to actually look like a house again. It won't be an easy task; for most of the rough prep work we've done, accuracy and details aren't required. Anyway, thanks for reading the blog and keep checking back to follow along with our progress! (By the way, you can comment on any of the posts by clicking on comments at the end of each of them.) Enjoy!