Is a Wednesday Better Than a Tuesday?

That's a good question and I am not sure of the answer. I do know it was an interesting day...

I've been working on the program for the House Dedication scheduled for Saturday. The family is Hispanic and neither the son nor the mother are fluent in English, so I'd like to do a few of the programs in Spanish for them. I sent a copy of the English version to our son-in-law Todd to see if he could translate them. I did the program in Microsoft Publisher, which in my new computer is, of course, Microsoft Office 2007. What Todd had was an earlier version. It took a while but I finally figured out a way to save Publisher in the earlier version to send to him.

This afternoon the carpet layers were supposed to install the carpet at House #3. They called this morning to say they would be there after lunch. Then they called after they arrived saying they wanted someone to bring the carpet sample so that they could be sure they had the right one. So Forry headed the sixteen miles to bring it over. After a bit Joel called me and said that they had left... He said they had said something about needing "the lady" to sign the papers..?
So I headed over there. When I arrived the carpet layers were back (I guess they had gone to Protero to get something to drink...) and Forry had signed the necessary paper,

But it was worth the trip to see the difference that a busy group of Canadien volunteers had made in that property! The rest of the fence was up; the wood and logs were all stacked; the trash was piled up to be disposed of; and all of the various and sundry salvaged items were tidily stacked in one pile. There should be no problem with the 100 foot clear area requirement now!

Tonight the family of House #4 came over to have dinner and share their story of the fire. It's pretty awesome to listen to people who have had to evacuate, then come home to devastation and ashes.

One of those days...

I spent most of the morning on the phone arranging inspections, making arrangements to change the scaffolding for ones that you can put multiple levels of planks on, following up on all the little details that the project entails -- but at the end of the day I was left wondering what I had done all day.

I did get a good start on the program for the dedication of House #1 next week. I wanted to get a picture of the homeowners in front of the house for the program, but when I was there earlier this week, there was too much construction stuff on and around the front porch. The crews are gathering up equipment and picking up as much as possible for the house tour that will be part of the Open House here at the camp on Friday. I told the homeowners I would take a picture of them then.

The carpet layers were supposed to be there this afternoon, but it turns out that they did NOT have enough in stock for the job (bedrooms and living room) like they said they did when it was ordered. They're saying that they ordered it from Georgia and it will be in tomorrow, but I wouldn't wager it'll be done for the Open House. I guess I'll just be happy if it's in in time for the dedication on the 27th.

This evening Ken and Mabel and Forry and I went to visit the site for House #5. We needed to check and see if they were running the water to flush the chlorine from the lines before the county came to test the water tomorrow. It's a new well and they needed to sanitize all of the lines today. Once the well water passes its test, the permit for construction of this house can be pulled by Robin. It's going to be in the most beautiful site yet -- the view is just fantastic. The homeowner has a green thumb. Her vegetable garden is already growing well and she has planted many trees and flowers.