DAY THREE

Morning brought a big-time breakfast:  scrambled eggs and bacon with biscuits and all kinds of fruit and plenty of coffee.  It becomes both easier and more difficult to roll out of bed:  easy because most of us have slept relatively well and difficult because the chances of being sore have greatly increased.  In addition to everyone's work at our respective houses, every team has to take its turn in the kitchen washing dishes, cleaning tables, dumping the coffee, and sundry other things.  If anyone sees a full wastebasket, it is their responsibility to dump it; each team has to provide cleaners for the bathrooms every evening.  It is a cooperative venture.

We have regretted the fact that we have not met the owner of the property (something the other group has done in spades---and even gone fishing with the relatives of the family with and for whom they are working!)  In spite of this missing piece, we have always arrived around 8:30 and left around 4:30.  Today was no exception, as Jim W and Ron finished with the electrical work, sheetrock progressed to about 85% finished with Brian and Jim M spending nearly all day on it.  Taping and floating has begun, with Charlie H, Joan, Sharon, and Kelly leading the way.  C.A., Ron, and Jim W turned their attention to hanging "green" sheetrock on the wall of the kitchen sink and refrigerator.  Harold, Charlie  G, Carl, and I sheetrocked the ceiling of the bathroom which had bare rafters and no insulation.  We decided that the process of insulating the ceiling will be done from the attic tomorrow morning.  Of course, that's likely neither to be to code nor in accordance with the conventional wisdom, but it made sense to us.  Beth and Shiela worked to deliver a wonderful meal of boiled shrimp with Maria (the aforementioned ex-Mo Ranch dining room chief) serving as the uber superviser.

Life in the PDA Village is depicted in the pictures, including the sleeping arrangements.  Some of the latter are in a large old gymnasium; most of the latter are in new, air-conditioned, but extremely cramped trailers.  Everyone is getting along; everyone is pitching in; everyone is thoughtful.   It will go on until the end of the week; and if it were to stay that way beyond that time, the kingdom will have come.  Let the pictures tell the story...and so to bed.