This Saturday started with our safety meeting on ladders. Sheryl, the Vice President of the organization that does this housing program, and Phil (the head supervisor)came out to answer the questions that some people had about the trusses. We have hired a company to finish installing our trusses for us. YEAH!!! They will do 2 to 3 homes a week. This will speed us up by 6 to 8 weeks. Then we got back to work. The men got to work finishing the porches and garages so the trusses can be put on. Some men went down to Deena's garage to install the trusses. The women went back to work blocking, adding clips, and bracing the trusses on lot 6.
Our friend Carrie came out during last break a brought out water, cake, and rice crisp treats for the group. It was a great blessing on this hot weekend.
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| Brandon and Patricia's house with the post for the porch. |
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| John and my house with the post going in. |
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| The view from where Debbie and I were working as the trusses went up on Deena's garage. |
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| another view from where Debbie and I were working, |
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| Leticia working below us. |
We are very thankful for hard hats, because we have dropped things accidentally from the trusses.
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| Our cement is being taken away. Debbie had this mountain of cement in front of her house. I referred to it as Debbiehenge (Stonehenge). |
More trusses where delivered for lot 12 (Evelyn) and 13 (Andres and Luisa).
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| John using a small saw to cut the posts on our porch. |
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| Steve showing how big the saw is. |
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| The sheer is going up on the roof of Alfredo and Naty's house (lot 6). |
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| John nailing off the posts on our porch. |
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| Pat, Brandon, and Steve working on Steve and Maria's porch (lot 11). |
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| John nailing. |
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| Brandon and Patricia's porch. |
Sunday morning the plan was for the men to continue working on the front porches and garages and the women work on Deena's garage trusses. It took most of the day to fix some problems on her garage. We had a lot of volunteers out to help us. Some engineering students came out from a local college.
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| Brandon and Patricia's house |
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| Deena's garage. |
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| John and I working on bracing Deena's garage. |
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| The header went up in our garage. |
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| Steve and Maria's front porch. |
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| Evelyn's front porch. |
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| John and my front porch. |
Thank you to all the people that came out to help us. We have been blessed by many friends that come out to lend a hand each weekend.
We ended with our Sunday night meeting. We discussed further the trusses being done by professionals. We found out that 10 homes will be completed by the professionals not 8 homes. I believe that most of the families are happy about the trusses being done by professionals. However, there is still questions on the financing part of it. We just want to get these homes done so we can move in and have our weekends back. I miss going to church and spending time with my kids.
Prayer Requests:
1) Wisdom for Facio and Toby on teaching us
2) Group harmony.
3) Will continue to get volunteers out to help us.
4) We will learn our jobs and do them quickly and accurately.
4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
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