This year, the house is being built on a piece of donated land in Bethany, IL – a town about 10 minutes from Sullivan. Given that this is week five of a six week build, the progress on the house is well underway. The interior walls are up, the bathtubs are in place and the electrical rough-in is almost complete. We are waiting for the plumber to complete his work before the wall insulation and drywall can be installed. It’s definitely starting to look like a house:
On the exterior, the team completed as much of the siding that could be completed until the concrete porches were poured and the back door gets installed.
Thankfully, the porch concrete was poured on Friday so we could get started on the siding. Joe and I started on the front of the house.
We were just getting back into the groove when the rain started. We worked for about an hour in the rain, hoping it would stop.
But then it really started raining. Without any gutters, the rain was coming off the roof … right to where we were installing siding. Since the forecast was for continued rain, we decided to call it a day. As you can imagine, or shoes became mud magnets. Of course, our mud boots were clean and dry….in the car :-(.
When we cleaned up as best we could, we headed out to a local church for lunch. And … what a lunch it was! They had prepared fresh homemade bread, two types of salads and three types of lasagna for us: meat, seafood and vegetable. If that wasn’t enough, they had 3 different desserts. Yeah … probably not going to loose weight on this build :-).
Rain, rain … go away! We ‘hear’ that it might rain again tomorrow. I guess God is just sending extra blessings our way :-). God is good!
Wow
The house is getting there and you two became experts siding the homes 😉
You deserve a good lunch after hard day .
Praying for you and the rain 🌧️ to stop🙏
Blessings and hugs.