day . o4

tgif...its the first week of class and i am already counting down to fridays. thats bad. well today started less than fun. i woke up late and had to speed the 35 miles to site. no fun. i got there and volunteered to scoop the residual water from the holes that the pump could not pump...with a size medium jimmy johns cup. not a fun way to start the day. so after an hour of scooping then finally having our buckets stolen for gravel transport. robert got to the site with the pump again. so caroline, sarah, ashley, and i began to go and try to pump the rest of the water out of the foundation. some places that were deep enough were successful and others we not. it was hard to navigate around, the mud is like quicksand in places, and many times i sunk from the weight of the pump and could hardly free myself. after doing our best to pump out what was left we moved to help with the clubho[us]e assembly. for about half an hour i felt useless. it seemed while we were dealing with the water that everyone had a job to do, and i couldnt find a place to fit in. i finally helped sort 2x12's and then lift them onto the saw horses to be cut. after they were all cut and moved closer to the footings that had been made with gravel, a cement block, and 6x6's with instruction from robert we laid them out in their rectangles like they needed to be put together. caroline and i then marked all the plywood, with three lines, and a mark every foot, to be used as the walls of the structure. as robert explained the plywood would be the strength that held the repeating 2x12s in place and kept them from racking. after everything was marked and pre-drilled, the raising began. everyone assembled around and carried the structure to the footings. one by one, they were placed, and the plywood was attached. it took quite a bit of adjusting but 5 were placed and 4 plywood sheets were attached. the end result of the day was that right side was shifted about 1 1/4". which will have to wait to monday to be fixed. by then it was time to comb the site for tools and pack up for the day, not to mention it was getting cold and very windy. and from somewhere off in the distance the awful smell of propane drifted into the site.

i cant wait for monday to see the final product of the clubho[us]e. on paper it looks like an amazing structure, and once the wheat is planted on top it will be so neat. the repetition of the 2x12s on the outside of the structure is very interesting.

it is forcasted to rain tomorrow, i better not! i will not be happy.