The End Is In Sight

Let's take a look at Thursday. We are getting close to the end of the week. Some jobs are starting to see the end, while others are beginning to make crew chiefs a little bit nervous. Everyone is evaluating their job to see where they stand.

The Miter Joints were working hard. They had once side of the roof where they had already started putting the shingles back on and the other side was completely scraped. It looked as if they had quite a bit still to do. However, this was our first stop, so they still had the rest of the day and all day on Friday to finish up. It looked like they should be able to finish it without too much trouble.



Next, we headed over to the Level Heads. They were putting the finishing touches on the roof and working on various jobs around the house and yard. There were people cleaning the gutters and also doing various kinds of yard work. Allison told us that this was a "great crew" and that she was very proud of what they were doing and how well they were doing it. Something pretty cool that I noticed was that probably most of the work that they were doing wasn't on the list of required work. They were looking for different jobs to do. When they found something that needed some attention and they were capable of doing it, they would jump in and get it done. They finished their job on Thursday.



The Lumber Rumblers were also hard at work. When we arrived, Jacob (Garden Oaks) and Victor (Arkansas) were wringing out a towel. They were trying to help get the roof dried off so that they could work on it safely. They had a little ridge cap factory going in the back where Jed and another guy (so sorry that I missed this name) were cutting up a storm. It looked like this project wasn't too far from being finished either.



And finally we made it to the Knot Heads. One of the first statements that was given to me was that their crew chief made them show up on the site 30 minutes early! How terrible! That mean old crew chief! Just kidding. They still had a lot of work to get done and he knew that they needed the extra time. And they were hitting it hard. I even heard the sounds of a grinder cutting through the stone on the back side fo the house. I got to have a pretty good visit with the crew. I am thinking that Derrick is the daredevil of the group since he was planning to "jump off the roof." Just kidding!!!!! If this is any of Derrick's friends or family reading this, he is actually a very safe and responsible young man who made sure to state that he was NOT a daredevil!!! "Shabookway Jones" (Tim), the firefighter, is a very respectable man. The things he does for the Lord in the conditions that happen are very impressive to me. Keep up the awesome job Tim! I also got to chat with others from the crew, including Eyan (I hope this is the right spelling!) (aka Jonas). Things were also moving right along here and it looked like they would probably be finished early on Friday.

As we were discussing their crew, one of the members mentioned how far out of town they were and the fact that no one ever came to visit them or bring them snacks, so, being the nice youth minister that I am, I picked up some frozen juice pops and took them out for an afternoon snack. I think that they were pretty happy with them. Most of them were gone in a few minutes.

From my very unprofessional eye, it looked like everything was on schedule and should be finished by Friday evening.