Habitat for Humanity, Dade City, FL - Part 3

From this... we will make a house! Amazing isn't it?

Wednesday morning we're up and at 'em once again by 8:00 am. A quick devotion and we go over the updates for the day, etc. We head over to the build site and they bring the lumber that has been pre-marked, cut, etc. for the house. It's kind of like putting a puzzle together as everyone helps to unload the trailer!

We lay out the walls on the concrete and once that's done, we start nailing...a wall at a time! We actually put up the north and south wall in two parts because of the weight and size. I learned all kinds of things about constructing houses and can tell you the various names of the parts of a wall! Aren't you impressed? Once we had the first half of the wall done we set it up. We couldn't bolt it down tight because the concrete really hadn't had the time, with the rain and the weather, to set up properly. We braced it inside and continued on. We were able to get both halves of the north wall up.

Today another homeowner provided us with lunch. A soup that had pieces of corn on the cob and chicken in it. Lots of other stuff too, but I don't remember what it was! :-) It was very good! The home owners are all so appreciative of all that the members of Habitat do for them.