Busy, busy, busy...  I took Thursday night off from the ramp build, primarily because I don't think I could have handled looking at it for one more consecutive night.  LOL   Ended up going out Friday night to get most of the railing up, so it will be mostly safe for Dick when he returns home.  Will most likely go out Monday night to cut the tops off of the 4x4s and add the last few railing sections.  When the weather warms up a bit more, I'll add the anti-slip tape to the decking.

Today was Day #2 of Local Service Weekend.  Several jobs were in progress simultaneously, including drywall work at the Literacy Center, tiling at the Cornerstone Medical Loan Closet's new location, Painting and cleanup at a local cemetery, helping out with a Red Cross race on campus, and probably a few others that I can't think of right now.  Brian and I arrived on campus around 10am, after loading the truck up with the chop saw and left over lumber from the ramp build.  Began the day with a run down from Jim and then headed out to the first job site.  Brian, Rob, Carrie, Carrie's mother, Bud and myself went to M. Twitty's house to finish up some railing on, you guessed it, a wheelchair ramp, that the group had built last year.  It was a fairly simple job that Bud and I took care of while the other 3 members of our team scraped and painted the foundation of the home which was flaking, and Carrie's mom kept Mrs. Twitty company in the house.  Carrie then went on to rake the grass in the back yard while we had lunch and waited for our next assignment.  Mrs Twitty was extremely thankful for the help and it was an absolute pleasure to have made her acquaintance.

Next the team split up, with Brian and I heading to the BR storage area to gather up the anchor posts and some other items that we didn't use for Dick's ramp.   We returned these, along with the aforementioned lumber to Home Depot and picked up two sheets of drywall and some paper tape for the job at the literacy center.  At this point, Brian had to head out to attend to a prior obligation.  Having delivered the material to the literacy center, I then went to Bob's Woods on the SBU campus where Bud, Rob, and I worked on leveling some of the rough spots on the trails.  This turned out to be a rather fun time, as Rob and I rode on the back of Bud's 4-wheeler as we brought several loads of bank run out to the trail.

To end the day, we returned a mountain of tools, etc. to the storage area and proceeded to the cookout that was planned at the Univ. Ministry building, where each grouped shared their accomplishments for the day.   A solid day of work overall, with more planned for tomorrow.  

-Nate