First Day of Work

We started our day off with a visit to the Habitat office but we were quickly moving off to our first work site. Matt, the volunteer construction coordinator, took us to a completed house to complete a couple of punch-list items - forming a sidewalk and putting down a gravel bed in another sidewalk form and the removal of a stump. Flashbacks to Puente Azul. It was the pickax, shovel and wheelbarrow for the next couple of hours. Robin H. quickly observed that someone should have recognized that that stump would need to go sooner. They could have just quickly have removed it when they were digging the footers. Great point Robin. So often we don't look just a little further and consider what else we could do to make tomorrow a little better. Nevertheless, we tackled it and we were quickly soaked through with sweat. The next stop was a similar situation that called for us to form two more sidewalks including digging out the path for each.

By mid-afternoon, we were on site of a house and began to carry in the trusses. We got the two end trusses up and several others ready to put in place first thing in the morning. Here are some pictures of the new construction site.