This will be shorter then yesterdays. :)
Karl (hoover) woke up last night with a belly ache. Hmmm, I wonder why? I forgot to tell you, we started a ping pong tournament. I am presently champion and have everyone joining forces to beat me. Their efforts are in vain.
OK, after breakfast and quiet time, it was off to work. We jumped right in. We knew what needed to be done and we wanted to finish today. Well, all of our supples were locked in the shed and Cheryl was not there yet. Bummer. Day 2 starting out slow.
I went to the harware store again. 26 more timbers needed and another 100 rerods. We were ready to mulch!!! Unfortunatly, the shale and mulch we were expecting did not get delivered. Hmmm. But we did have more pickets for our fence.
Sarah and Ally were on fence duty. They had a great system for lining them up, spacing them and screwing them in place. I am very proud of there work (and they are too) Oh, funny story. After lunch, Josiah and John started to do the pickets where the girls got done. Oh man, they were talking and off in their own world. Every single picket was lower than the one before it. I called in the girls to get back on the job. John was good enough to remove the 12 or so that had been put on poorly. It was a good moment for girls around the world.
Ahmin took over on the skidsteer and delivered the mulch we did have. He got pretty good on it too. So good that he decided to teach Nancy Stevens drive it. Wait til you see this footage. Awesome.
When Ally wasn't working on the fence, she finished her shed. After Ben and Sean drilled and delivered the 26 timbers, Karl and I laid them out and nailed them. The playground is looking sooo nice!!!
We finished the painting, the fence, the timbers, the track, the fence, the weeding, and everything else. We will have to come back on Thursday to spread the shale and mulch (pray that they deliver it, please)
Cheryl treated us for lunch today..PAPA JOHNS pizza. The world's most awesome pizza (in my opinion) She is very thankful to us for the work we've done and for the supplies we've purchased. ($500.00 to date)
Some cool news is: Reid Doster from Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Disaster Response, has reimbursed us for all those supplies. What an awesome supplies!! ( I mean surprise!) Reid also put us in contact with a guy who is getting us work tomorrow. I think we are painting a women's house. Oh man, here we come... loaded with paint. It could get messy.
After work, (we showered of course) but then we went to mexican place and had some good food. I hid Ally's leftovers from Hoover. That boy can eat!!! (But I didn't want him eating any more refined beans)
We then treated the group to a movie. Evan Almighty...we thought it was appropriate. Ping Pong, Rummy, Devotions, and bed.
Please continue to pray for us. We celebrated some close calls tonight. I almost hit Nancy's finger with a spade shovel (it would have been real bad), Josiah almost lowered the skidsteer bucket on my arm and head, Nancy almost got hit in the head with a 3lbs. sledge hammer, John almost rear ended our van with his and I almost backed into a white mustang. Come to think about it...I was involved in each one of those. Hmmm. Not good-maybe I should get some sleep. Keep praying for us (me) :)
For our growth, others good and God's glory!
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