After today, I feel like I've become more of a meteorologist than a blogging, church member and construction volunteer. We've seen it all the past 10 days... rain, floods, lightening, thunder, sun, heat, and today--hail. That's right. This afternoon all hail broke loose after we had, thankfully, packed everything up. It cut our day a little short but we got the important part of siding the front done, and that's the layout.

The photos show the front of the house that's beginning to look like a house! Ken is so proud of the way it's looking and we were just getting rockin' and rollin' with the lap siding. If I must say so myself, it will look terrific when we're finished. Ken worked inside today replacing the drywall around the sliding glass doors to the patio where we had to reframe. And Ken, I do have 1 question for you. What are you doing using the table saw to cut that itty, bitty piece of wood? And what are you going to do with it once it's cut? Inquiring minds want to know!

Speaking of myself, most of the folks working are very quick to question my abilities. "Are you sure that hole's in the right place?" "Is this the side that's 1/4 in. higher? Are you sure it's not supposed to be 1/4 in. lower over here?" "Did you check to see if this is level?" Question after question after question. The other day I mentioned that Ron thought we ought to have titles; he's the Safety Director and Ed is the Superintendent. Today I've assigned myself a title: Project Perfection Manager. (It's very similar to being a Quality Control Manager but I like the word Perfection in my title. Hey, I'm writing the blog, I'm assigning titles, so I get to choose. Period.)

Carol once again provided lunch and included watermelon! Therefore her title continues to grow; it's now Carol's Catering, Deli, Grille, and Farmers' Market. We have become like Pavlov's Dogs... asking earlier and earlier, "What time is it? Is it lunch time yet? I wonder what we'll have today?" Carol, a simple thank-you seems inadequate; but Thank You.

As I mentioned to you in yesterday's post, the inspector is supposed to come out again on Monday. Today, Superintendent Ed went around the house putting nails everywhere! If we still don't pass on Monday, it definitely won't be because there aren't enough nails. That siding is going nowhere.

Mary Alyce was back out with us today and we had another first-time contributer to the project. Patrick came out to give us an opinion and instruction on dealing with the electrical concerns on the outside of the house. When we get ready to put the siding up behind the electrical service to the house we have a plan and we have licensed backup. Thank you Patrick and Dawn Electric for your support.

We will be taking some time off from this project this next week. Several of us have had personal plans in place for a long time now so we won't be working a set schedule. Please stay in contact with Ed or me and we'll let you know what the schedule looks like.

I look forward to seeing you in church tomorrow!