Habitat build days 6-7

We got up to a sunny and cool Monday morning.  It was about 60 degrees outside and I took Penny Lane for a short run.  It makes it easier for her to spend the time in Lewis if she gets exercised.

I came back from my run and Rob and Megan were having coffee and breakfast.  We made lunches, got ready and headed out to the job site.

The first order of business for Monday was to move a large load of dry wall into the garage and house.   It took us a bit of time but everyone got into a rhythm and we got it done.  1/2x4x12 dry wall is heavy and cumbersome.  Nothing like starting the day with weight lifting.

The house is not very big so I knew that seven adults was too many to get dry wall on the ceilings.

A guy named Bob was there with his Bobcat (dirt mover) so Megan and I set to work shoveling.  Not glamorous but it had to be done.  The lot that the house is on sits a bit low so it will take some work to get it to drain properly.  We shoveled dirt from 10-3.  It was a bit tiring but the weather was good and we got some exercise.

We left the site and stopped by the store with the huge selection of beer.

  We created our own six pack, picked up a few groceries and headed back to the RV.  The first order of business was a cold drink with chips and dip.  Rob had done dry wall all day and we had shoveled dirt.  It was good hard work and we were a bit tired.

YOU WOULD THINK THEY HAD WORKED ALL DAY

We rested a bit and then I fixed dinner.

We topped off our day with a few episodes of Parks and Recreation.  Hilarious!

HALF ON OR HALF OFF?  SILLY DOG!

Tuesday dawned less cool but still really nice.  Penny and I headed for our run while Rob and Megan had coffee.  We went through the same drill of fixing lunches and getting ready and we were off for another day on the site.

The house was still too crowded for us to be any help with dry wall so we worked on putting in window wells and an window egress.

MEGAN RATCHETING NUTS TO COUNTERSUNK BOLTS

I GOT TO USE AN OSCILLATING SAW.  WHAT A USEFUL THING TO HAVE FOR AWKWARD CUTS.

BREAK TIME

 This required lots of drilling into the house and countersinking of big bolts.  We got two wells in and got most of the egress done.

We helped clean up the site and decided to go to the local library for WIFI.  It is a Carnegie Free Library.

A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university librarysystems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia,South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia and Fiji.

At first, Carnegie libraries were almost exclusively in places where he had a personal connection, namely his home-town in Scotland and the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. Beginning in 1899, Carnegie substantially increased funding to libraries outside of these areas.

In later years few towns that requested a grant and agreed to his terms were refused. By the time the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie.

  

As I sit here typing, I wonder what the locals think of three filthy strangers sitting in the library with laptops.  We are all typing madly and are very focused.  No matter....they are very accommodating and pleasant.

We will finish our day with showers and Chinese Buffet.

Another great day in this thing we call life.