Awesome

First work day of ASP 2011, on Team Awesome (Ben D. Linda O., Colleen C., Maria F., Mike G., and Matt S.) a very heavy job replacing the ceiling of Mr. and Mrs. Delta with sheetrock.

Upon arrival, the friendly face of Mrs. Delta is a great sign.  While inspecting the ceiling to be replaced, the shining face of Mr. Delta popped up.  After a friendly intro we started clearing out the room.  After 45 minutes of walking back and forth, the room was finally ready to begin the actual job. 

Without ladders, none of us were tall enough to reach the ceiling.  Feeling hopeless, we decided to wait for ASP to drop us off some free standing ladders.  After 5 minutes of unsuccessful problem solving, Mr. Delta walks in with a triple pronged hook with the additional 4 feet.  Mike, Matt and I were able to pull the ceiling panels off.  After 10 minutes of fun for the boys, clean-up began.  Still the problem of the ladders dragged on. 

In this time, we spent it getting to know the couple.  As we learned from the sweet and outgoing duo, Mr. Delta is a retired paratrooper as well as a cop while Mrs. Delta is a retired shop worker in town.  We even got to meet the homebound neighbor.  Another very, very sweet lady.  First request from her was to buy a watermelon and eat it all!!  Upon arrival with the watermelon, we broke for lunch. 

Waiting for the ladders still, we got to watch the Pittsburg Pirates win and our ladders arrived!  After the arrival of out ladders, we were able to make easy and fast work of taking out nails in the ceiling and putting up our first drywall sheet.  As we left, we planned to make tomorrow the best we could and get the drywall all up.  As I quote Matt Crawford and Mariel Slater “Best Monday Ever”.

Ben Dettelback