I don't know think I ever really mentioned them, but we were with this group of girls from Elms College in Chicopee, MA. There was fourteen of them including three chaporones. Shockingly only two of them were lazy, other than that, they were all hard workers. Especially Jose who is a faculty member at the college and one of the lucky chaporones. We also worked with three hardcore women from Champaign-Urbana, a woman from New York who seemed to be looking for a husband, and Mike the retiree from Tacoma who yelled out crazy things and was our unofficial site leader for the week!
Anyway, we started off on our original house where we finished raising the tresses (I'm positive I've been spelling this wrong the whole time, but haven't made the effor to look at the Home Depot website to see how they're really spelled!). Once we finished with that, various projects were going on. I worked w/Andrea to put up the OSB that Bob the Builder (Rod) cut for the open holes in around the house. A group also helped go around the outside of the house to make sure no stray nails were sticking out so that the Tyvek could be put around the rest of the house. They were also working on woodwork for the front of the house.
Once we lost our Elms people, the remainder of us were reassigned to another house on the block since the house had been moved up on the priority list. We were installing sheeting on the roof. Not an easy nor fun job, but still interesting. We got up what we could before the end of the day, took a group picture and said our goodbye's.
Here's some pictures from Saturday...
Wrap up commentary coming soon...
Sue
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