September 24, 2024 – Rain delay – but not for this crew

The toughest part of the day is getting up at 5:30AM.  But …this morning God got us up with a really loud thunder storm.  Not only the thunder, but the sound of heavy rain on a fiberglass roof is enough to get you going :-).   When it stopped raining around 7AM, there were ‘ponds’ outside our window, where there was just grass last night.  We must have gotten over 2″ of rain.   But, by 7:30 it had stopped raining.  We got out our ‘heavy duty’ rain boots today, and headed out to catch our ride.  We were greeted at the door by a fellow Care-a-vanner,  telling us that Gene had called off work for today.   But…. we have our boots on, and we’re ready to go!   The rest of the team felt the same way, and we convinced Gene to meet at the job site and see how the weather goes.   While we were waiting for our ride, I decided to use the huge puddle outside our front step to attempt to clean off some of the mud from the shoes we wore yesterday.

As we expected, the job site was a mud pit.  Joe and I, with our heavy duty boots, were ready to start siding.  We did get some rain on-and-off, but we were able to get some siding cut.

Fitting the siding around the windows is always challenging.  After carefully measuring, we have to manually cut the siding with sharp sheers.

By lunchtime, we had completed as much as we could on the front wall without getting ladders  which would have been unsafe to use given the mud pit. 

We were once again treated to a wonderful lunch at a local church.  We had a selection of sandwiches, salads, chips … and of course, some amazing desserts.  After lunch, we started working on the side wall.  By the end of the day, the team had made significant progress on the porch soffits and siding.  Here’s a view of progress at the end of the day. 

….not bad for a ‘rain delay’ day.  This Habitat team is here to build a house, and won’t let a little rain get in the way :-).

God is Good!