First Work Day - July 23, 2007

Started the day with a 5:15 am alarm and shower. Breakfast was wonderful with creamy grits, bacon and scrambled eggs!!!! We left the armory around 7:15 and arrived a little too early for Mrs. Peters so we drove around for 20 minutes. Around 8 am she and her daughter were ready for us. We started by assessing the 3 bedrooms and discovered furniture needed to be moved, carpet pulled up, padding removed, tack board pulled up and floors swept and vacuumed. So we all pitched in and started to work.

Later in the day, the home owner, Sheila, Uncle Pete and Linda went to pick-up about 400 square feet of 18" ceramic tile. The rest of us spent our time measuring, putting down chalk lines and discussing the layout of the tile. While waiting for the shoppers to return, Pete took a nap sitting on the floor leaning against the wall in one of the bedrooms. Mike was sitting on the swing on the front porch. Terri was sitting in the rocking chair on the front porch. Alice and Kenny were sitting on the floor watching Pete sleep!!! [:

After the shoppers returned, we unloaded a couple tons of tile. We finished the day quite early around 2:30 pm because we didn't have enough time to start laying the tile before we had to be back for dinner. We prayed with Sheila and her daughter before we left for the day and presented them a Bible with all of our signatures inside the front cover. Tomorrow will be a VERY BUSY day!!!!!!!

We returned to shower and clean-up. Linda is sleeping. Terri and Alice are at the only rebuilt casino sending you this message. The guys are just hanging out. Dinner is at 6 pm.