OUR LAST DAY
We'd gotten so much done in the little house so we were able to move down the street to start work on another one.
Our new site consisted of walls with a freshly plumbed and poured basement. We were going to spend our day putting in joists.
We had never put joists in so it was a bit of a slow go at first. The site leader, Joe, is really good at his job. He gives good instruction and then lets us have a go. He makes himself available for questions but is not a micro manager. We quickly got the hang of it and got things moving along. This was definitely a job that should not be rushed. Keeping things properly distanced and squared was important. I have thought many times over the past two weeks, "what if this was my home?" Slow and steady worked for us and it yielded good results.
I DID NOT NEED CONVINCING TO WEAR A HARD HAT. A COUPLE OF DROPPED HAMMERS MOTIVATED MOST OF US
TA DA!
We also did a bit of work around the footers and got everything set for the walls to go up. We were not able to get that started but it was a good day of work.
We made our way back to the RV and did a bit of tidying up.
Rob cranked the grill and we cooked burgers and fresh corn on the cob.
MY MESSTERPIECE.(A MESSY MASTERPIECE)
A little history on the wedding vs the tractor pull. For the past few nights, there has been a group of folks showing up to decorate the fairgrounds main hall. They have been prepping it for a wedding reception on Saturday. They are expecting 250 guests and they have spent hours getting it ready. We found out a couple of days ago that the fairgrounds is also having a Tractor Pull on Saturday.
Truck and Tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a motorsport competition, popular in United States, Europe(especially in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany), Australia and Brazil, and New Zealand which requires modified tractors to pull a heavy sled along a 35 foot wide, 330 foot long track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the sled the farthest. The sport is known as the world's most powerful motorsport, due to the multi-engined modified tractor pullers.
All tractors in their respective classes pull a set weight in the sled. When a tractor gets to the end of the 100 metre track, this is known as a "full pull". When more than one tractor completes the course, more weight is added to the sled, and those competitors that moved past 300 feet will compete in a pull-off; the winner is the one who can pull the sled the farthest.
The fairgrounds did not relay this to the wedding party. So....come Saturday, there will be a wedding reception and a tractor pull in very close proximity. I will have to say that I am glad we will be long gone.
BTW the wedding folks tried to lock us out of the showers but we managed to find a way in. Kinda rude but I guess they are a bit stressed.
We have had a great two weeks. We have learned quite a bit and we have gotten so much practical experience. Habitat definitely has kinks in their system but their motives are pure and the results mean so much to those who receive.
TOMORROW IS MOVING DAY!
Another great day in this thing we call life.
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