Good Day.

Yesterday was probably the most enjoyable work day that I've had since I've been down here. I had to lead a siding job with a group of about 8 from the Episcopal church plus four homeowners. It was quite a mix. This was my first time leading a crew on siding so I was a little concerned with how well we would do. Especially since the group was so large. Luckily I had a couple of guys who have been volunteering with Habijax for quite a while who knew a little about siding. Anyway, we managed to get the entire house sided in one day. It feels good to actually complete an assignment in one day. And on top of it all, the Episcopals brought homemade sandwiches and cookies with drinks, pickles, grapes, plums, and vegetables. It was outstanding. I hope next week goes as well as this one did.

In our Saturday afternoon meeting we found out a little more about the jobsite shooting. Apparently when the guy showed up at the site with the bricklayers with a gun, the bricklayers attempted to disarm him and two of them got shot in the scuffle. But they were able to hold him for the police. It turns out that the women he was beating attacked the bricklayers and actually hit one in the head with a shovel so the bricklayers had to restrain them too. That woman was arrested too. Also at the meeting we found out that at some point during the year we may have to put windows and blue board (like Tyvek) on a house before the building is inspected so that the sponsor of the house that is scheduled to work on it has something to do. And since the building will not have been inspected before the blue board went up, we would tear it down the next day so it can be inspected, and then we would put it up again. Pretty stupid.

Well, the Sox won last night. Crede was outstanding yet again as was Contreras. If we can win tonight and go up 2-0 before facing Oswalt, I like our chances.

Take care.