Today was much cooler than it has been with temperatures in the mid 60’s. Light jackets were needed for us ‘Floridians’ to start the day. It was breezy, making it a very nice change for working.
After our morning devotion from a local pastor, we got to work finishing the flooring in the master bedroom suite. We only had a small space to finish in the closet and bath, but it required multiple tricky cuts. Joe worked on creating a template for the commode which was a tricky cut out. We worked as a team, and got the circular cuts needed. We were able to finish up the flooring in the master suite about 10:30am. It was about the same time that the other flooring team finished the other 2 bedrooms and bath … so all the flooring in the entire house was in by mid-morning! The floor looks great and will be super easy to keep clean since it’s all vinyl.
Our next job is to install interior doors. This house has 15 doors, more doors than any other Habitat house they have built in this community. The building lead on the team is not very happy with the quality of the doors, since the door frames are made out of press board. Also, the doors were painted by some Habitat volunteers and were not dried correctly … so the doors are stuck to the frames. This makes it tough to get the doors leveled correctly. We spent the afternoon watching and helping Bob install two doors, so we could get the hang of it. We did use this very cool jitterbug tool that easily cuts through the shims on the door. Debbie got her first taste of hydraulic tools with an automatic nailer. We’ve now graduated from the training stage, and will tackle the doors tomorrow.
While we were working on floors and doors, some of the team were installing kitchen and bathroom cabinets. Others were installing electrical receptacles around the house.
After the workday was over, we came back to the motorhome to shower, change and rest a bit before dinner. I decided to take a picture from our motorhome window. In this part of the country, there seems to be miles and miles of corn fields. Many of them at this point in the year are brown. I’ve been told that they harvest these for feed.
We were then treated to an amazing meal at AMBUCS. The mission of AMBUCS is creating mobility and independence for people with disabilities. This local affiliate builds wheel chair ramps for those in need, which is amazing. We had the biggest country style pork chops I have ever seen. Their chef (volunteer) smoked the chops for 4 hours before lathering them up with barbecue sauce on their grill. Top that with bacon and cheese mashed potatoes, coleslaw, pork and beans and pumpkin pie. I had so much food, I couldn’t even have dessert.
We look forward to a fun day of door installations tomorrow 🙂 .