day . 17

today again was gorgeous! i really hope that winter is over! it is so much easier to work when you are not shivering! so today we continued with the scaffolding. adrian explained how the 45 degree bracing worked, so got to work putting it up. denise and i went around and tightened all the bolts that held the bracing in place while everyone else put rebar through the base so they would not slide when someone was up there. we then moved on to tightening the bolts for the walk boards. after they were all in place we hoisted the walk boards up and i got to get up on the first one and help pull the 2x12s up that we were also using as walk boards. it was a very windy day today so it was a little scary at first. once i found a gopher, cody handed me ICFs and rebar and cut the ICFs that needed to be cut. we were able to do almost all of 2 more courses on the front wall. it goes so much faster once the windows are totally in and covered.

we are going to have to push hard to get everything done by friday. it is our first deadline so i REALLY hope that we make it. robert put the word on us today so time to work hard for the rest of the week!