Rain, Rain, Go Away...

So as you can tell by the Title that today was a rainy day. Despite the rain, the brick group finished the side of the house and started removing the brick on the front of the house. The first two pictures below are the before and after shots of this. The others worked on the inside of the house, removing drywall and windows from the bathrooms, bedrooms, closets and storage areas. Most of the insulation was wet and moldy so everything had to be thrown out. The goal for our group was to finish the demolition so that the homeowners can bring in licensed contractors to start on the electrical and plumbing once we are finished. We have stacked more bricks than anyone had ever thought existed!

Tomorrow the weather forecast is for mostly sun and 80+ degrees. A nice change from today, although we have been lucky to work in the cooler temps for a few days.

Pinky and Naomi made us hamburgers for lunch today. Bubba Burgers in fact. And you have to say BUBBA Burgers! Tomorrow is supposed to be more Southern cooking for lunch--we cant wait!

Thanks to everyone who has posted comments! We all have been very encouraged with your thoughts and get a kick out of your inside jokes. It is quite a good time posting these late at night when we are all tired but not wanting to go to bed yet because we are having too much fun together!

This is the brick wall that a large group worked on tearing down. All of the pallets of bricks the ladies have stacking have come from here. This is the before picture from Monday.


And this is the after picture from Tuesday. Very nice job guys!


Pat showing Carolyn how the real work is done. This is how you do it "Mississippi Style".


Curt staying away from the "brick layers" later in the afternoon.

The homeowners Pinky, Naomi and Ken on their front porch.

The men showing off their muscles for us onlookers. This was part of the debris from the boat house.



One of the front rooms we finished gutting.

Gary and Sherry removing windows in the bathroom.

Mary removing drywall in the bathroom before the windows are removed.

Sherry and Mary after the windows are gone. We like power tools!!

Clearing out the gutted kitchen.




Charlie removing the rest of the tile with the sledge hammer first thing in the morning.

John sweeping up after gutting a bedroom. What a job!

How clean!! These were the front two rooms that will be the future kitchen.

The old kitchen after everything was removed. Their first appliance in the new kitchen is the coffee pot on the stool!

Another cleaned out bedroom.