It's Coming Together

The comment today, from more than one team member, has been " It really came together today." The flooring is finished, the baseboards and quarter round fareinished, some light fixtures are in place and are working, the sink is set and will be hooked up tomorrow, cabinet tops were set and just about all the electical dilemas have been rectified. (Thank you for the troubleshooting, Rick!)

Our "young uns" headed home and we miss them already. Maria, Emily and Brandon were surely a blessing to our team. Their positive outlooks, willingness to learn and do anything, (always with a smile) their fun loving attitude and devotion to God were lighthouses for all of us. Please pray for their safe return and for God's traveling mercies as they come back to Kentucky. We laughed at Brandon yesterday as he was inundated with sea gulls after feeding just one. He was snapping pictures and he got the last laugh by catching some amazing photos.

We are bonding with the team from Pennsylvania, and two gentlemen from Missouri and Kansas, both engineers and both down for a month. Leslie and Stacy make the messes in the kitchen and Leslie from Pennsylvania and her team, clean them up. Believe me, its a great trade for us. Tonight we had spaghetti, salad and apple pie a la mode for dinner. The most amazing thing we had for dinner was garlic bread made with Denny "dough" bread. Wow! If Denny ever makes bread for you, try it in French toast, garlic bread, or on a sandwich. All teams have enjoyed it very much. Thank you Denny!

We hope to get the tub surround in, the stove set, the rest of the light fixtures up and set up whatever other appliances we can get delivered. Other projects that we are working on is getting a cover on the furnace closet, hang the medicine cabinet, caulk the little holes, do some touch up painting, trim and rehang all the doors, and put some wood putty in to completely finish the floors. Bud says we have to empty the house so we can really see what else might need to be done, so we will be moving everything, lumber and all, out.


We are pretty tired and plan to turn in early. We will give you our last update tomorrow and head on home Saturday. We will work hard tomorrow to get Stella that much closer to moving in to her home.