It has taken about three weeks, but this is pretty much what has been going on since we started working on the site. We get out to the site for the first time, and well.. if you have seen a heavy timber frame church that was built in the 1850s and has been relocated to a place where several walls that have fallen off the foundation, if there even is a foundation, you might know how we felt. We began by mastering the art of building scaffolding to remove a wing off the south side. That was our first successful task. All of the windows and rotted frames (some were 30 feet high) had to be removed, put in cases we built, and transported 30 minutes away to the wood shop in Newbern. That was probably the most disgusting thing we have done… between the walls and above the windows, smelled awful… no body out there had seen so much rat poop in our lives. We got ahead of schedule after the first weeks and began planning for the alter wing take down. The office had to do a lot of documentation of the structural members which slowed us down a little. The past couple of days we have completed transporting window cases, removed all the roof siding on the alter wing, and finished exposing the smaller arches (which are still huge) for take down. Over all our events out on site have gone pretty good. Things are rotten, things are falling, rats are losing homes, Golpar is collecting lady bugs for paint, Van is still selling “how to” VHS videos, Nick and Nick are trying to graduate middle school, Erin is still working on her last bite, and you know LaGrange is still keeping it real.