It was a beautiful day in Sullivan – bright blue sky, slight wind and a high around 75 degrees. At today’s devotional, the local minister shared a poem with us. We were all touched by it, and asked him to give us a copy.
We then got our plan for the day. Today’s goal was to get started on decking the roof, and make progress on getting the house wrapped.
The first step was to install the south gable. Since it’s really heavy, the volunteer builder brought his fork lift at 8:15 this morning to lift it into place. Since our crew was experienced at installing them, it only took a few minutes to lock into place.
Joe was on the roof crew, so he was crawling around roof rafters for a good part of the day. He was installing hurricane reinforcements between the first two trusses and the gable.
I was working on installing the safety rail system on both ends of the house. The purpose is to provide a handrail for the roofers. The platform was very high off the ground, so it took some maneuvering to get all the pieces locked in.
The roof decking crew got the first half of the roof done. It’s really coming together!
It was a good day. We accomplished a lot. As we said at the groundbreaking ceremony: “O God, let us rise up (tomorrow) and build!” 🙂
Wow, so much accomplished today! Bless the more comfortable temperatures!