Working on a porch, day 2

      The team of Page and Jimmy Fulgham, Bob Jernigan, and Marc Beaver accepted two new members today. Jeff Badke and I joined them to work on the roof over a porch that a Smoke Rise crew had worked on back in October. We got the braces placed as well as the support pieces for the metal roof that we will put on tomorrow. We had a bit of a snafu as the metal shop was not able to cut any metal this morning. This afternoon the metal was delivered to the site. It will be ready for us to complete in the morning.

     In the meantime we were able to come back to the lodge and work on the door to the shed. I use "we" loosely. We made efforts to repair the door and then Sean showed up. My favorite comment of the day was when Sean told Page "Get out of the way, just this one time." So we watched as he made quick work of the door.

    The other teams were making progress on their projects as well. The bathroom project hit a few snags along the way as is typical of bathrooms. They had to do more floor repair than they had expected. They should be able to seat the toilet and attach the tub tomorrow to finish that project.

     The window team went to their second house today to remove and replace several windows and a double sliding door. Sean was able to show up at all of the sites throughout the day and offer his assistance to each. He headed back to Frankfurt this afternoon.

     Tonight the team was treated to supper from Nancy Gibson. She is lady that lives down the holler from the Lodge.  Smoke Rise worked on her kitchen on one of their first trips up to McDowell. Since then she has cooked for the team each time they come up.  This has been a great week of work and fellowship.

     Continue to pray for the team's safety as we work on the various projects. Pray for the homeowners that they would recognize our work as a gift from the Lord.