Monday was MLK day, so we had a free day to rest and get ready for the week ahead.

Tuesday was spent at the church taking inventory of all the new and old wood, and moving the old wood closer to the church. We also took dimensions of the damaged wood so we could make repairs. Matt’s truck, Vanessa, got stuck in the mud, and we spent an hour trying to get it out, and then had to call a tractor to rescue her.

Wednesday we completed inventory and dimension analysis of the wood and finished moving it to the job site, with the use of Corey’s 4Runner, Jill. We also cleaned out our utility trailer so that we would have a place of our own to work in, and then found out that our clients wanted us to use a different trailer. Planning for construction of the east entry wall began as we split into our separate groups. We’ve been designated the task of putting up the walls and repairing windows and doors for the next 5 weeks. Wednesday we took the dually so that we could bring two single windows and a double window back to the wood-shop to repair on rainy days.

Friday we spend the morning repairing the remaining major support columns so that we can put them up first thing next week. We also assessed the damages to the columns on the east entry wall so that we know what must be repaired Monday. Then we went to Perry Lakes Park to vote on the mock-up toilet paper dispensers made by team roadkill.

 Learning Objective H: Making wise decisions. Brett and John put up the safety rails on the scaffolding for the top level.

 Learning Objective C: Develop skills in using materials and tools. Matt uses the skill saw to cut through a piece of new wood that will be spliced to an existing column that had rotted.

Next week we are planning to start putting up the east entry wall, which means that we need to repair all the damaged pieces of wood and figuring out where we believe each piece should go.