Today was another great day on the site! We put in a great deal of work on two of the five houses that are currently going up in our site's neighborhood. Most of the work was done on the roof or inside the house drilling more support rods (these rods help support the frame of the house from hurricane winds- if you didn't read yesterday's post). A few girls got pretty handy with the nail gun and hung a lot of trim as well! Everyone in the group contributed immensely! Unfortunately, early in the day Shawna had a nail go through her shoe and pierce her foot, but she was tough and came back to the site after visiting urgent care and worked the remainder of the day! The roofing crew made great strides towards the completion of the shingling process on their house. It was pretty impressive seeing the progress they made from the beginning of the day until the end. Other impressive feats were many people overcoming a little fear of heights and climbing up onto the roof to help lay the plywood in the initial roofing process. I know that I personally am just loving all the new skills I am acquiring on the site! Learning these skills does come with a few funny moments. For instance, my first experience with a cement nail gun (is that the technical term, i'm not sure..) was priceless. For those of you who have never used one of these guns, it somewhat throws you back after "firing" it. similar to a real gun, not realizing this, I may or may not have screamed like a little girl after my first attempt, luckily it gave everyone a good laugh. Needless to say I'm sure these types of moments were happening all day, or at least I hope it wasn't just me. ;) The weather was once again beautiful. It seems like everyone's sunburns are starting to feel a bit better, but we still enjoy checking out the crazy tan lines (full hand prints even) that everyone has. After putting in a seven hour work day, we had a nice dinner at the church with some members and the pastor and his wife. Later in the evening, half the group went to an outdoor movie at USA, while the other half went on a little trip to mini-put at the fabulous "Putter's Dream and Ice Cream." Today was another great day, we heard about the snow at home and I think it made us all appreciate the warm weather we have here a little bit more! We hope all of our gracious supporters are enjoying this sneak peek into our days in Alabama! Hope everyone has a great thursday! :)
Three of the five Habitat houses in progress in this neighborhood.
The boys enjoying our lunch break in the van, they needed an escape from the blazing Alabama sun!
TJ used his lunch hour to sneak in a nap.
Alex and I face our fear of heights and try our hand at roofing, we ended up loving it!
Spencer, Shawna, and Hannah measure and cut plywood for the roofers.
This house is farther along in development. The wrestling boys and Kelly put in most of their hours on this rooftop today, they made it look easy!
Kelle and Jenae mount trim on one of the houses.
Jenae became a nail gun pro!
Cardinal Athletics
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