Porches

Tuesday June 9, 2009

Today we went to the house of a man named Darryl, who lived right next to Antoinette Brave Heart in Kyle. We had a big day ahead of us: rip out two porches, build and install two porches, build and install a ramp, build and install a set of stairs, and paint the entire inside of the house (walls and ceilings). But, we all had the mind set that we were going to get everything done. 

It was me, Mike & Chris, Maureen (who we had forgotten and left without, she caught up later), and three work crews. Mike was going to do the porch with the ramp all by himself, I was gonna get a few volunteers and take over the other porch project, Maureen and Chris would take the rest of the volunteers inside to paint.

It took a while to get the porch started and progress was slow (mainly because none of us really knew what we were doing. By the time we had the porch frame attached to the house, Mike was already done with the porch itself and started on the ramp. But, at the end of the day we got the porch done (minus the handrails). It was a very productive day, hard honest work felt really good.

Tomorrow, I just found out, I'm going to be install bunk beds into homes with Phil and Breanne. That sounds like it's gonna be a good day.

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