So we’re all still alive out here… and a lot has happened since our last blog so I will try to bring us up to date. It all began about 2 weeks ago… The steel jig arrived on the flatbed from Birmingham on Tuesday (February 27th). The jig was used to brace the arches as we removed them from the church. I guess Wednesday could be nicknamed d-day because that is when everything started coming down. Much to our dismay, we were able to smoothly remove 2 arches in our first day with the help of a boom truck, crane, and two man lifts.. Thursday was an eventful day… in the wee hours of morning, 5 AM to be exact, we called the day and decided to work on other things besides the church due to the threat of tornadoes… some of us decided to weather the storm in Sub Rosa while others at Morissette House. We all made it for the record. It was back to work Friday, and we again sucessfully removed 2 arches. Come Monday, it was crunch time. We had set a goal for ourselves to have the rest of the church down by the end of the work day Tuesday before we left with Dick for our Architecture History trip to New Orleans Wednesday morning. You better believe we accomplished it. As of now, all 6 arches have been transported to the new site at Cahawba, all of the walls are down and the members have been loaded into the trailer. The shoring came out Monday and now all of us are at the Red Barn recovering from New Orleans. This week has brought all my friends back to the office to begin working on everything that must get done before we can start rebuilding the church. Eric and Erin are putting together assembly documents so that we will know how to put this thing back together one day; the crack auto cad team consists of John, Adam, Christine, Chris, and our ever faithful leader Jason. Golpar, Bill and the happy couple, Walker and Sarah are washing windows; Jamie, Candace, Cameron, and Nick Wickersham have disapeared to the site and no one knows what they are doing since they did not sign out and now everyone is mad at them. Frances and Nick Bishop are working on the model and designing the new wood connections. I have been contacting companies about Lexan today, scheduling the pick up of the port-a-potty, dumpster, and storage containers and other random mindless tasks. No one knows where Van is. Well, I guess that pretty much catches us up to speed. We are projecting that we will begin to rebuild the church the Monday we return from Spring Break, April 2nd. At that point we will have roughly 4 1/2 weeks to rebuild it which is completely realistic. Between the church, watercolor, our column drawing (which is due next Thursday), our paper, eating, thinking about running, and M & M drawings, we have still managed to have fun. So long..

This morning we met as a group to discuss how we are going to break up into groups for the rest of the semester to get everything accomplished. This was a long discussion to make sure we covered all aspects of the project and things we needed to prepare for the next meeting with Cahawba. After much conversation, we decided on eight major groups to divide into. Erin and I were chose to work on the design assembly directions. Chris, John, and Adam began work on the construction documents. The other groups were the connection details, working on windows, unloading members at the site, 3D-models, and the office. After the groups were decided, we all split up and began work on our specific tasks. Lots to do, so little time.