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
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