Apologies for the lapse in updates, faithful readers. Work has been keeping us all rather busy, these days. So, let me provide you with a little recap on the events of the past 2 weeks or so...
Things I have made/moved/done...
-played with one super cute stray puppy and convinced one volunteer to bring her home and adopt her
-painted one house 'Wild Falcon' brown... covering over one perfectly good coat of pastel yellow paint. Not a very fun job to replace a pretty, spring color with a layer of boring, old khaki brown.
-installed sheathing and roof decking material with spring breakers from Oklahoma and Iowa... was called ma'am once.
-moved tons and tons of heavy shingles, tools, boards, pre-build components, trash, and teammates
-saw Beach House and The Papercuts live
-lead volunteers, including one group of super-cute but not so bright LSU gymnasts. (Funny story... one of my teammates was leading a group of gymnasts in framing the walls of a new house and told them to lay out the studs between the top plate and the bottom plate, gesturing and explaining to make sure her directions were clear. [We, after all, also had no clue what we were doing when this construction project started.] One girl picks up a nail and says, 'So, this is a stud?')
-framed one house on LSU's campus, right between the tiger and the baseball field and the big, big stadium. Clearly, no family is going to be moving into a house situated in this location, so we get to break down the frames on Tuesday and move it a few miles to its final location. (Sounds like moving holes, huh Dad?)
-asked by one eight-year-old if I was in the army
-found that my nose contained a plethora of black boogers after working in the ReStore, Habitat's recycled and new building materials store
-chatted with numerous sweet, Southern people who tell me that I sure don't have a Southern accent
Things that I am looking forward to...
-Spring break and a trip to Arizona!
-learning where my next project will take me to and what we'll be doing there (we're leaving in one week and don't know where we're going next... I'm getting antsy.)
-job interviews
-planning a little mini trip back to lovely Maryland, once it defrosts.
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