Thursday, July 8, 2010

A good days work....

Today we arrived in staggered crews to work on the house.  Kate and Deb, followed by Nathan and I and finally Mike who had to see a doctor in his battle of worm vs. brain.  (I think worm is winning)

Together we cleared a heck of a lot of brush, crap from psycho psusans house, burned a lot of wood, completely filled a 10 cubic yard dumpster, carved a path to the dock and started working on a second container when we called it quits.  

There is still a long way to go just to get the place presentable and getting all the crap out before we can fully assess the rebuilding job ahead.  Priority one is the fuse panel as the way it is now makes the hair stand up on my neck. 

Some notables:   A huge hairy spider that made Mike squeal like a girl.
Mike lifting 450 pounds of carpet onto his shoulders.
The immense and varied crap found in the house.
Nathan and I going over his job again and agian using hand props "Wood to Fire, Wood to Fire, What Can Nathan DO? Wood to Fire, ect." 
Snakes - a bunch of em.
A poisonous centipede
An incredible amount of solid wood oak flooring - makes me drool.
Katie actually breaking into a sweat while fighting her jungle battle to the dock.
Me calling the dumpster driver "Dick" when I think his real name is Bill.
Deb passing off Sonic BLT's as Morgans.
WOW I ALMOST FORGOT! WE HAVE HAD ELECTRICITY FOR 48 HOURS AND IT HASN'T BURNT DOWN YET!

Tomorrow we are excavating and putting in driveways for the garage and the deck. whew!

Here are a few pics - the one of the house doesn't show much progress but it's there.




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