Tuesday, July 19, 2016

A Village


They say it takes a village to raise a child. It also takes a village to do anything big and outrageous in your life. Our village is phenomenal!!! I don't even know where we would be without these people in our lives and helping us make this project our home.

This picture is from Saturday when Matt and Brent (two men from bible class) came to help Shae with the fence. They dug 11 holes by hand and set them. This was after they cleared the yard of unnecessary brush, tree limbs and things that would be in the way of the fence.

 

On Sunday after lunch and church, Shae and Brent used a hydrolic auger to dig the rest of the 25 holes for the fence. They did 25 holes in about 3.5 hours. I continued working on pulling reclaimed cedar off the walls in the master bedroom. Brent also stayed late to set the lines with twine so that the guys on Monday had something to work off of. 

 On Monday, Dustin (from bible class) and Chad (coworker from FMJH) came out to help set the rest of the posts in the fence. They fill 25 posts!! They worked so hard and they were awesome. If you have never set posts, it is hard work. You have to check, double check and triple check before pouring and setting the concrete. It's crazy! And I am so thankful for all the hard work.


As a small thank you, I made these guys lunch in the crockpot. Barbecue chicken sliders! They were delish! After they finished setting posts, Pickens signed the shed and then had to head home. Dustin stayed and helped me with major parts of the bedroom. Not only did he help pull off the aluminum siding from one of the walls, he also unscrewed all the aluminum siding from the ceiling. Before that, he tore apart the closet!! Yay!! Pictures are worth 1,000 words...

 






 
 
 

And completely gone!!! What a relief!!

At the end of the day, when everyone left and Shae came to Celeste from work. We continued our work on the fence. We set the cross members for our first panel in the back. I've never done any thing like this before, but I look forward to working it into completion!

 

2 comments:

  1. Adding new skills to your resume!! Proud of you and thankful for your wonderful helpers! Great progress!

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  2. Adding new skills to your resume!! Proud of you and thankful for your wonderful helpers! Great progress!

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