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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
P.H.D.'s Are Handy
It was a dirty and detail-oriented day on Saturday. However, Bee Creek United Methodist Church rose to the challenge and completed a lot of interior painting, exterior trim, and digging. Thanks, to everyone, for your work all day!
The diggers, thankfully, all had P.H.D.’s. No, silly, not the university-professor kind of Ph.D, but rather the Post Hole Digger. Much to volunteers’ dismay, our electric digger (a.k.a. the auger) is broken, and they had to dig by hand. But, in the long run, I think this made for a more interesting afternoon…
Chris and Clayton were digging a post hole right next to house when they happened upon a buried rubber kiddie pool. After much cutting and stabbing and laughing, the ground around them was strewn with orange kiddie pool carnage. I think the auger would have eaten right through the pool, but with their P.H.D., Chris and Clayton got to be regular Indiana Joneses (a true archeologist with a Ph.D), excavating their way through the pool with much adventure and action (well, kind of…).
This Saturday, May 3, I’m going to be out of town, so Bill Aguayo, the friendliest person I’ve ever met, will be site-leading. Get ready to paint and build a fence, and watch out for bear hugs: Bill is a heck of a hugger.
Eliza
The diggers, thankfully, all had P.H.D.’s. No, silly, not the university-professor kind of Ph.D, but rather the Post Hole Digger. Much to volunteers’ dismay, our electric digger (a.k.a. the auger) is broken, and they had to dig by hand. But, in the long run, I think this made for a more interesting afternoon…
Chris and Clayton were digging a post hole right next to house when they happened upon a buried rubber kiddie pool. After much cutting and stabbing and laughing, the ground around them was strewn with orange kiddie pool carnage. I think the auger would have eaten right through the pool, but with their P.H.D., Chris and Clayton got to be regular Indiana Joneses (a true archeologist with a Ph.D), excavating their way through the pool with much adventure and action (well, kind of…).
This Saturday, May 3, I’m going to be out of town, so Bill Aguayo, the friendliest person I’ve ever met, will be site-leading. Get ready to paint and build a fence, and watch out for bear hugs: Bill is a heck of a hugger.
Eliza
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Lutherans Are Not Claustrophobic
Saturday was a day of big changes and small spaces. St. Martin’s and Faith Lutheran Churches painted, assembled, and installed cabinets, interior doors, and interior shelving in Alice’s house. Thanks for all your work, everybody! The inside of the house took a huge step forward.
Returning to the circus theme, there were contortionists on site! All day long, I marveled at volunteers working in very small spaces. Act 1: surrounded by open, grassy fields, six painters set up shop inside the Mini Mobile (which is a metal storage unit, roughly size of two King-sized beds). Act 2: Bill and his wife Connie (who I’m still not sure knew what they were getting into…) put up siding in a space the size of a roomy coffin. And the grand finale: eight people, from among a houseful of doors, chose to ALL install ones in the hallway, wedging bodies, nail guns, levels, doors, and a partridge in a pear tree into 30 square feet. It was a spectacle unmatched by Cirque du Soleil! I didn’t know Lutherans were contortionists, but the proof is undeniable.
This Saturday will be a combination of detail work and brute force: we’ll be doing detailed painting, and also digging holes and setting fence posts. So, decide in advance if you’re a micro-manager, Atlas in disguise, or small enough to hide in a cabinet to avoid all the work (just not the one in the corner; that’s the one I hide in), and come on out to help work on Alice’s house!
Eliza
Returning to the circus theme, there were contortionists on site! All day long, I marveled at volunteers working in very small spaces. Act 1: surrounded by open, grassy fields, six painters set up shop inside the Mini Mobile (which is a metal storage unit, roughly size of two King-sized beds). Act 2: Bill and his wife Connie (who I’m still not sure knew what they were getting into…) put up siding in a space the size of a roomy coffin. And the grand finale: eight people, from among a houseful of doors, chose to ALL install ones in the hallway, wedging bodies, nail guns, levels, doors, and a partridge in a pear tree into 30 square feet. It was a spectacle unmatched by Cirque du Soleil! I didn’t know Lutherans were contortionists, but the proof is undeniable.
This Saturday will be a combination of detail work and brute force: we’ll be doing detailed painting, and also digging holes and setting fence posts. So, decide in advance if you’re a micro-manager, Atlas in disguise, or small enough to hide in a cabinet to avoid all the work (just not the one in the corner; that’s the one I hide in), and come on out to help work on Alice’s house!
Eliza
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