We’ve spent the past two days performing construction on a local house. Most of the walls only had drywall on the upper half when we arrived, but we have almost all of them covered now. The work has been rewarding, especially when you see the look of excitement on the owners face as she realizes that she is going to have walls again. She has been living in a trailer in her front yard along with her young son.

I spent most of the first day putting up insulation with Ben, a Dickinson student. We had a pretty good time, all in all, but I was very tired at the end of the day. It got very hot, since we had to wear long sleaves and masks for most of the day. I’ll admit that I’m not used to being on my feet all day, and so by this afternoon they were definitely letting me know that they weren’t pleased. I’m toughing it out, though, and don’t think I’ll have any problems making it through the week. Today was much better than yesterday, since we only had a little bit of insulation to hang, and that meant we could wear short sleaves the rest of the day.

Not much else to say, really, so I guess I’ll sign off.

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