Another 2 full days of working and we have a roof! It really looks like something too. Just glad that everyone climbing around in the rafters made it down safely! Thanks again to my dad and also to JD Doty and the Quigley's for helping us out on this portion. No real stories on this portion, it was hot and sunny most of the time. I'm we hit triple digits, so that was fun.
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Thursday - Saturday of this week we planned on framing. We got 95%+ of it done and that is with mother nature not helping us at all. More on that in a second. Thanks to my Dad the Dotys and Riley we pretty much reached our goal. We actually probably could have finished it out today, but we ran out of supplies, thanks to mother nature, and to take that extra hour to go get what we needed would have put everyone behind getting to work, etc. tonight. And quite frankly at this point, after an hour's break, we wouldn't have wanted to start back up! All we have left is to frame in 1 door and 1 window and then a bit of sheeting around both doors, and the garage door wall. Now to the mother nature part of this story. So yesterday we finished the sheeting and windows on two walls and the framing was done on the 3rd wall. The garage opening was not done, because the beams for it were delivered later in the day on Friday. When we decided to call it a day Friday, we put a few supports on the walls and went in. Well just around 11:00 pm the wind started kicking up. It started gusting pretty bad. Around 12:15 am I heard a noise and went to check on it. Sure enough the garage part of the one completed wall had gone down, and it compromised the interior wall dividing the two spaces - since you know they were attached to each other. That wall was swaying very perilously. If it had gone down it would have compromised the next wall and then the next, and potentially it all could have gone down. I ran and got Eric, Carsyn, and Ashly and then ran back out to hold up the swaying wall (only 2X4s on this one thank heavens!) Carsyn got out and helped me while Eric and Ashly put on more supports. It took about 45 minutes and shortly after we were done the wind stopped! Oh well. Needless to say the first 3 hours of this morning were spent putting everything right again. Thank heavens we had the Hurricane straps to make it easier! Anyway before we called it a day today, you better believe we put way more supports on and of course it helped that the 4th wall was framed in too! See the Aha moments page for a bit more musings on this. (I'm going to type that up next so if you see this before 7:45 pm on Saturday the 22nd, don't go to the AHA page yet.) Brooklyn's Farewell will be August 18th at 12:00 pm at the Ivins' Center Street Chapel. There will be an open house at our home after that from 1:15 - 4:00 pm.
If anyone has tips for preparing to go to the Mexico MTC or for the Salta Argentina mission we are all ears! After 3 months of ground prep we did the cement pour in about 3 hours this morning!!!! Thanks to 3MC Construction for getting this done for us today. Now to the fun part of the build. (Thanks too to all our neighbors who helped with the ground prep.)
Brooklyn will be going to Salta, Argentina on her mission! 18 months Spanish speaking reporting to the Mexico MTC on August 20th! Looked up pictures and she won't miss Southern Utah terribly, lot's of the same landscape. More rain, the largest city is slightly smaller than Charlotte NC where Ashly served. It's slightly lower elevation than Salt Lake City and gets twice the amount of rain as Salt Lake does. Will post with more info on farewell in a week or so!
So it's the start of June and Brooklyn is back in the United States, not quite home yet but still, and Carsyn is heading to New York in a couple of hours!
Sunday June 9th at 7:30 pm Brooklyn will be opening her mission call at our house. Friends and family are all most welcome to come, but we will be sharing through social media what her next couple of years will look like for those who can't join us. House project update: we think we are pretty much ready for the cement. It's amazing how the final part of any project, those last little details, goes on forever long! Hopefully we can see if there is anything we missed, or need to adjust, and then get the cement pour day scheduled. Fingers crossed! |
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