Monday, February 18, 2008

FIRST WORK DAY ON SITE

A beautiful day with warm temps greeted us as we arrived at the site for work. In Waveland, same town as our worksite in 2007, this year we will not be doing a "blitz" as previous when we had everything ready for us and we put up a house in 5 days.



This time, we will be doing "pre-site" work, which means, working at various local Habitat sites, building roof tresses, nailing together walls for later raising, painting or anything else necessary to help the teams coming in next week for a "blitz".

So with enthusiasm for the work ahead, we carried, we nailed, and more. The most significant project was building a 6' x 12' shed at a homesite on Forest Street. From plans sketched out on a board for us, we built the floor, dug and cemented the footings, erected walls and finished the roof. And, constructed a door which was hung with a couple of hinges. Good work!

Now we have tired muscles, but they did not interfere with a drive to nearby Mexican restaurant for some burritos and other favorites from the extensive menu. Oh, and we got to sing Happy Birthday while there to one of our Jersey guys whose birthday it was today. Of course, the waiters brought out a tasty morsel topped with whipped cream.

More tomorrow.

Post by N. DeVries

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To the DeVries Crew et al
Congratulations -- nicely done. We're so proud of you all.
From Ruth and all your supporters

cbaio said...

Hello all,

Great picture, so proud of you all. Keep up the great work, we are all thinking of you

Cate