Thursday April, 19 2007, today we got to go on another glorious field trip with our professor, Dick Hudgens. Although our class usually starts at one we left at eight headed for Mississippi. The first house we saw was named Riverview and it was beautiful. It had a wonderful staircase that wound up four stories to the cupola. This house also has some of the best plaster work in Mississippi. For lunch where we had some amazing BBQ and tamales. It might have been the fact that I was stuffed but the next house I really did not enjoy, or at least not as much as those tamales. The doors were crooked and for some reason it really bothered me. The tour guide said the doors were crooked because of the gravity hinges that lifts the door up so it would not cut the carpet, but never the less it still bugged me. The last house was spectacular, not from the outside, but from within. It was 8,000 square feet but it only had 4 rooms that may have taken up 2000 square feet. The rest of the square footage was in the main great room that was 4 stories high and had circular balconies all the way up to the top of the cupola. This is one of those houses that you would have to see to believe.

Monday May, 19 2007, today everyone got the privilege of being out at the new site to pull all of the members out of the semi-trailers that we had just so recently placed in there. We sorted these members by what wall they came from and placed them on pallets in piles. We were also working on the construction documents. Another group would figure out how to put the church back together. Since we are trying to use as much of the old wood as possible, we made a proposal to use modern connections, like hangers and using plates, so we could cut off the bad parts of the joist and connect it to a new piece, so we would not have to buy all new floor joists.